Quotes and Sayings About Looks
-
... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.
-- Alfred de Musset -
After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
-- Alfred E. Perlman -
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.
-- Alfred Thayer Mahan -
Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.
-- Alfred Worden -
People quickly look through things and don't sit and experience. That's a problem with artwork, [because] it's more of an experience than something to quickly look at. It takes a while for everything to unveil itself.
-- Ali Banisadr -
I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.
-- Ali MacGraw -
There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.
-- Ali Smith -
In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.
-- Alice Barrett -
That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.
-- Alice Childress -
I've always loved fantasy. I think it's a great way to look at issues that we have in our own lives with a little bit of the pressure off, you know.
-- Alice Englert -
Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.
-- Alice Fulton -
My look is more grandmother’s leftovers than ***** chic.
-- Alice Glass -
It reminds me how funny living in LA can be; You go to a friend's barbecue and you leave the face of Victoria Beckham's look book.
-- Alice Greczyn -
I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
-- Alice Hoffman -
He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
-- Alice Hoffman -
O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?
-- Alice Meynell -
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.
-- Alice Meynell -
[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.
-- Alice Sebold -
You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
-- Alice Sebold -
I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.
-- Alicia Keys -
The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.
-- Alison Bechdel