Staring Quotes

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. (James Thurber)
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. View quote
Gene Fowler
Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves. View quote
Jane Goodall
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring. View quote
Macaulay Culkin
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. View quote
Margaret Halsey
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. View quote
Henry James
We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky. (Fernando Pessoa)
I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves. View quote
Jane Goodall
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. View quote
Alan Moore
What?" Jace was still staring at her as if she'd told him she'd found one of the Silent Brothers doing nude cartwheels in the hallway. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Look, here are we on this starry night staring into space, and I must say I feel as small as dust lying down here. View quote
Dave Matthews
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. View quote
Ray Bradbury
I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give. View quote
Hugh Laurie
Don't go on staring at me like that, because you'll wear your eyes out. View quote
Émile Zola
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you! View quote
Frank Herbert
It's expensive to keep Communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't reduce it by exporting tomatoes or toilet paper. We should be making dollars any way we can. And we should be exporting arms any way and every way, openly and secretly, legally or by smuggling-I don't care how. View quote
Nicolae Ceaușescu
It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it. (Asger Jorn)
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God. View quote
Martin Buber
Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion. View quote
Randall Jarrell
I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important. View quote
Abraham Verghese
The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke