Looking Quotes

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

~ Karl Barth

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

~ Xenophon

I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good.

~ Francois Nars

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

~ Jane Austen

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

~ Saul Bellow

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.

~ Simon Sinek

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

~ George Jean Nathan

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

~ Margaret Smith

Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.

~ Guy Pearce

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

~ Angelina Jolie

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.

~ Garry Shandling

When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.

~ Jason Sudeikis

When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.

~ David Brenner

Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.

~ Tony Diterlizzi

I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.

~ Joshua Oppenheimer

I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.

~ Colm Tóibín

There's traditionally been a large disconnection in contemporary art between the audience and the artist. Generally, audiences are looking towards what they like, and I can tell you, that's the last thing on an artist's mind.

~ James Turrell

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

~ Richard P. Feynman

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

~ Andre Benjamin

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

~ Paul Klee

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

~ Frank Stella

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

~ Thomas Friedman

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

~ David Bailey

Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

~ Yami Gautam

The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like to say, and it's trying to use the revolution in communications technology, the ability to use all sorts of corporate entities in ways that are hard to detect to get our spies in the places where they need to be.

~ David Ignatius

As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.

~ James Surowiecki

I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.

~ Jack Ma

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

~ Gwynne Shotwell

Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way.

~ Robert Downey

My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.

~ Victoria Clark

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

~ Christina Aguilera

I've always felt a certain guilt to have them labeled as 'Christina's sisters' or, 'That's Christina's mom' but them looking for the respect to be named Elizabeth and Danielle and Carmen.

~ Christina Milian

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

~ P. J. O'rourke

If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you.

~ Carmen Electra

I'm representing the single women out there, dating around, trying to find the right guy who respects you and appreciates you. Maybe I'll settle down somewhere. Gotta keep looking.

~ Madchen Amick

I've given up looking for a boyfriend. That's not to say I won't be interested if the right guy comes along. But I'm not in a hurry.

~ Emily Vancamp

I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.

~ Janis Joplin

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

~ David Lynch