Looking Quotes - page 15

If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people. In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus. (Chuck Palahniuk)
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. View quote
Dean Koontz
And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later... View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Only the children know what they are looking for. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. View quote
Damien Hirst
I'm not perfect, I'm not an angel, but I try to live a certain way because it brings honour and respect to my mother. I tell people that when they look at me, they're looking at nothing but a big, overgrown, tough mama's boy. That's who I am. View quote
Mr. T
Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant - you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon. View quote
Roger Zelazny
Looking at the Moonies from the normal, common-sense point of view, we certainly appear to be a bunch of crazy people! View quote
Sun Myung Moon
But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs. (Thomas Keneally)
You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud. View quote
Nhat Hanh
I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to set the other side. View quote
George Mallory
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. View quote
Iain Banks
I think I know the real reason.” "Which is?” "Alcohol in the dust clouds. Goddamn stuff is everywhere. Any lousy species ever invents the telescope and the spectroscope and starts looking in between the stars, what do they find?” He knocked the glass on the table. "Loads of stuff, but much of it alcohol.” He drank from the glass. "Humanoids are the galaxy's way of trying to get rid of all that alcohol. View quote
Iain Banks
Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place-and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all-so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time. View quote
Iain Banks
[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion. View quote
Chuck Jones
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy, looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find. View quote
Fritz Leiber
To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste. View quote
Robert Silverberg
Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't. View quote
Dick Francis
[A] good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for Him. (Georges Bernanos)
I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light. View quote
Georg Brandes
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light - every eye looking on finds its own. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life. View quote
Al Franken
I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit! View quote
Roger Bannister