Looking Quotes

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

~ John Simon

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

~ Michael Morpurgo

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

~ H. Jackson Brown

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

~ Liz Carpenter

I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

~ Scott Baio

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

~ Ginger Rogers

I feel like looking in the mirror when you brush your teeth, yes, I see lines, and then I smile and I see things here and there. But that's just, you know, you - that's your journey, you know?

~ Heidi Klum

I have a few go-to moves like jazz hands, shake the booty, stupid eyes. It was once a mating ritual, but now it's all about looking silly and making the kids smile.

~ John Cho

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

~ Tom Hanks

If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

~ Laura Dern

If you look at my movie career, I do switch it up a lot. I'm always looking for a lot of different parts. It's been a while since I've been in a situation that was romantic.

~ Kevin Bacon

Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.

~ John C. Reilly

Kissing scenes are never romantic or sexy. They're actually super technical, like, 'Move your head; you're blocking her light,' or, 'Stop looking like an idiot when you kiss her.'

~ Will Poulter

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.

~ Jamila Woods

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

~ Asghar Farhadi

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

~ Henry Ford

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

~ Harry A. Blackmun

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

~ Sarah Jessica Parker

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

~ B. C. Forbes

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

~ Temple Grandin

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

~ Samantha Morton

We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.

~ Jennifer Connelly

My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.

~ Sammy Sosa

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

~ M. Night Shyamalan

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

~ Henry Paulson

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

~ Ed Begley

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

~ Serj Tankian

When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second.

~ Sugar Ray Leonard

I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits.

~ Bruce Vilanch

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

~ Jon Corzine

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

~ Mitt Romney

I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.

~ Monique Lhuillier

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

~ Guy Finley

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

~ Barry White

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

~ Jose Andres

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

~ Herbie Hancock

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

~ Buzz Aldrin