Gazing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.
-- Alain de Botton -
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.
-- Anthony Doerr -
Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
-- Augustus William Hare -
All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.
-- Dan Brown -
While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
I think like the species I am studying, whatever it is. If I am watching a lizard, I become the lizard. Gazing ath the water at a pike, I become the pike.
-- Desmond Morris -
I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars.
-- Eminem -
If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over agaain.
-- Greg Egan -
Oh! How should all hearts be taken with this Christ? Why stand ye gazing on the toys of this world, when such a Christ is offered to you in the Gospel? Can the world die for you?
-- Isaac Ambrose -
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
-- John Ruskin -
I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.
-- Joni Eareckson Tada -
We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.
-- Joseph Epstein -
In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers
-- Kobayashi Issa -
She knew she shouldn't want him with every fiber of her being, but she couldn't help herself. Gazing at him feeling his touch - the rest of the world faded into the background
-- Lauren Kate -
Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?
-- Martin Scorsese -
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
-- Matsuo Basho -
Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you will always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you, gazing on you kindly.
-- Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov -
How do you know, Dan? You were so young when they died. Do you really remember them?" "Not in my mind," Dan replied, gazing at the passing scenery. "But everyplace else...
-- Peter Lerangis -
Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres--and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.
-- Richard Salter Storrs -
A glance at Christ will save, but it is the gazing at Christ that sanctifies.
-- Robert E. Murray -
A bunch of liberals wanted to outlaw men gazing at women because the gaze was said to objectify women. Sorry, liberals, it can't be helped among the heterosexual crowd.
-- Rush Limbaugh -
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
-- Steven Saylor -
I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds
-- Talulah Riley -
Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters--and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown.
-- Thomas Hood -
Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [WAREHEIM]and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.
-- Tim Heidecker -
Just by gazing upon her face... No matter how weary you are, you will feel happy, deep inside your heart, you will feel a warmth This is a "piece of joy" This is all the happiness you need. Normally, we call this "love"...
-- Yoshiki Nakamura -
When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is almost a perceptual necessity; in order to see what the photograph is of, we must first repress our consciousness of what the photograph is.
-- Geoffrey Batchen
