Looking Quotes

That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.

~ K. A. Applegate

The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.

~ Brendan Coyle

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

~ Kanye West

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

~ Moby

'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.

~ Darryl Pinckney

I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.

~ Susan Vreeland

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

~ Moshe Safdie

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

~ Lillian Smith

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

~ Lloyd Alexander

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

~ Laura Bush

When I'm out, maybe I'm looking at the fried chicken, but I know I need to order the grilled. But I'm still from the country. I love my fried food and my neck bones and all that, too.

~ Adrian Peterson

I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

~ Alice Waters

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

~ Thomas Aquinas

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

~ Junior Seau

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

~ Virginia Woolf

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

~ Sean Connery

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

~ Bette Davis

Looking good is the best revenge.

~ Ivana Trump

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

~ Neil Gaiman

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

~ John Derek

You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.

~ Elaine Stritch

I'm still not aware that I'm good looking.

~ Jamie Dornan

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

~ Umberto Eco

I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.

~ Jane Goodall

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

~ Juliette Binoche

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

~ Jeff Koons

We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the U.S. homeland.

~ John O. Brennan

There's nothing more confirming in your life than looking in front of you and seeing some really amazing people who you care a lot about who care a lot about you.

~ Kathleen Edwards

I make an enormous amount of salads, but my salads are like meals. They're amazing. I like going down to the farmers' market and looking to see whatever you can find, because you can put anything in a salad.

~ Andie Macdowell

When you see a tumour in the brain, it's an ugly looking thing. It's kind of black, grisly and messy. Or it can be white. To see it taken away is just amazing.

~ James Nesbitt

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

~ Birdy

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

~ Shakti Gawain

You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.

~ Harbhajan Singh

A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained.

~ Helen Fisher

It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.

~ Ryan Lochte

You get a chance like that maybe once in your lifetime, and you are lucky to sustain it over that period of time. It doesn't mean to say that whatever I do in the future has no substance to it - I may present some new material I've got, and there are definitely new angles of doing it - but I'm not looking to recreate another Led Zeppelin.

~ Jimmy Page

When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.

~ Peter Diamandis

You don't have to be a believer in Jesus Christ to be a gracious individual and understand that everybody messes up and that most are looking for a second chance.

~ Shawn Michaels

Looking back, I am thankful that I didn't go into the film industry.

~ Hideo Kojima

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

~ Scott Brooks