Looking Quotes - page 11

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? (Haruki Murakami)
I've been to Vulcan where I've been vulcanized, Carbon where you get carbonated and Standard where you get standardized. Ernie Isley's invited me to Castor ... and I'm not looking forward to it. View quote
Ralph Klein
Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is hard work. View quote
Käthe Kollwitz
I gave up on this stuff. I gave up on my species and ... I gave up on my countrymen. Because I think we squandered great gifts. I think humans were given great great gifts: walking upright, binocular vision, opposable thumb, large brain ... We grew. We had great gifts, and we gave it all up for both money and God ... We gave it all up to superstition, primitive superstition, primitive shit ... Invisible man in the sky, looking down, keeping track of what we do, make sure we don't do the wrong thing, if we do, he puts us in hell, where we burn forever. That kind of shit is very limiting for this brain we have. So we keep ourselves limited. And then we want a toy and a gizmo and gold and we want shiny things, and we want something to plug in that will make big big big things for us... And all that shit is nothing! It's nothing. View quote
George Carlin
Always do your very best. Even when no one else is looking, you always are. Don't disappoint yourself. View quote
Colin Powell
There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing. View quote
Jean Arp
I'm looking for a hard-headed woman, One who will make me do my best, And if I find my hard-headed woman, I know the rest of my life will be blessed. View quote
Cat Stevens
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happens that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discover the truth, because of his own efforts. (Antoni Tàpies)
The eyes of man can perform two functions: one is "seeing" energy at large as it flows in the universe and the other is "looking at things in this world." Neither of these functions is better than the other; however to train the eyes only to look is a shameful and unnecessary loss. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food. View quote
Kanye West
I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you? View quote
David Hockney
I'm an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I'm always looking to extend the boundaries. View quote
Ai Weiwei
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality. View quote
Burt Lancaster
What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be. View quote
Bruce Lee
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. In nature everything is always right: the structure is right, the proportions are good, the colours fit the forms. If you imitate that in painting, it becomes false. View quote
Gerhard Richter
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity. View quote
Simon Newcomb
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future. View quote
Paulo Freire
I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber. (Ewan McGregor)
Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time. View quote
Robert Jordan
Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon. View quote
Robert Jordan
Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it. View quote
Gore Vidal
I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing.... this position of seeing them [the objects] without looking at them too much, without focusing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life.. View quote
Jean Dubuffet