Looking Quotes - page 10

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum. (John Updike)
When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." ... this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not. View quote
Rollo May
Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am. View quote
John Lydon
Buddy Holly was the geekiest looking guy in the world, but he had some really rockin tunes. View quote
Chris Cheney
You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My god! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the devil! Most of mankind has believed in the devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil. View quote
Antonin Scalia
The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most. View quote
Alain de Botton
"To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She wasn't the best looking lady we ended up taking home but she was very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much, let's have a coffee" - on the "ugly" win against Chesterfield. View quote
Ian Holloway
If you're a burglar, it's no good poncing about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy. View quote
Ian Holloway
Like any dealer he was watching for the card that is so high and wild he'll never need to deal another. He was just some Joseph looking for a manger. (Leonard Cohen)
Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed by officials, academics, or economists who know every science but the science of human nature. View quote
Jean Chrétien
There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do. View quote
Edward Heath
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. View quote
George Soros
Looking as like ... as one pea does like another. View quote
François Rabelais
As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for. View quote
Paul Krugman
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents. View quote
George Eliot
Paul Newman's half Jewish and Florence Henderson's half, too Put them together, What a fine looking Jew! View quote
Adam Sandler
I'm looking forward to being older when what you look like becomes less and less the issue and what you are is the point. View quote
Susan Sarandon
I've had every known chemical--cocaine, booze--and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke! (Ozzy Osbourne)
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires. View quote
Banksy
Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place. View quote
Banksy
As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments. View quote
Banksy
Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain. View quote
J. P. Donleavy