Looks famous quotes

Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.
-- A. A. Gill

#Enemy #Looks #Television

Tut, Tut, looks like rain
-- A. A. Milne

#Rain #Looks

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
-- A. B. Simpson

#Reflection #Self #Looks

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
-- A. E. van Vogt

#Writing #People #Looks

Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
-- A. H. Almaas

#Inspirational #Mind #Looks

I don't look at myself as suffering.
-- A. J. Langer

#Suffering #Looks

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
-- A. J. P. Taylor

#Vices #Looks #England

Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
-- A. Lee Martinez

#Reality #Looks #Fruitcake

Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
-- A. Lee Martinez

#Eye #Silence #Looks

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
-- A. P. Herbert

#Thinking #Looks #Sausage

Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.
-- A. Philip Randolph

#Enemy #Minimum Wage #Looks

There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
-- A. R. Rahman

#Looks #World #Scope

While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
-- A. R. Rahman

#Art #Doe #Looks

Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
-- A. S. Byatt

#Running #Reality #Looks

You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.
-- A. Whitney Brown

#Looks #Revolution #Facts

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
-- A.C. Grayling

#Wall #Graffiti #Looks

You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Night #Bed #Looks

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
-- Aaron Copland

#Personality #Mind #Looks

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Directors #Looks #Producers

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Stupid #Looks #Research

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Talking #Looks #Clinton

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
-- Aaron Hill

#Art #Looks #Deceiving

When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.
-- Aaron Koblin

#Pie #Looks #Numb

If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.
-- Aaron Siskind

#Looks

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Two #People #Looks

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#Trying #Looks #Internet

Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
-- Aaron Tveit

#Awards #Way #Looks

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#Looks #Able

When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#Finals #Looks #Emptiness

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
-- Abbey Lincoln

#People #Looks #Cabinets

If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
-- Abbi Glines

#Fighting #Darkness #Looks

And you've got a boy right there who looks at you like he would drink your bathwater if you'd ask him!
-- Abbi Glines

#Boys #Looks #Drink

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.
-- Abby Sunderland

#Wall #Blue #Looks

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
-- Abdallah II

#Military #Looks #Conflict

I like to look at the glass half full.
-- Abdallah II

#Glasses #Looks #Half

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
-- Abdallah II

#Three #Looks #Jerusalem

I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.
-- Abe Ajay

#Color #Looks #Use

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Helping Others #People #Looks

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Laughing #Looks #Hardest

[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.
-- Abigail McCarthy

#Age #Looks #Way

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Lying #Deceit #Looks

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Photography #Looks #Faces

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational #People #Looks

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Forgiveness #Wish #Looks

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Looks #Wheels #Caught

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir

#Looks #World #Invasion

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
-- Abu Bakr

#Eye #Humanity #Looks

Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!
-- Abu Yahya al-Libi

#Grandparent #Shining #Looks

Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!
-- Ada Leverson

#Black #Looks #Suits

I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.
-- Adam Hills

#Men #Sick #Looks

The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose
-- Adam Lambert

#Looks #Way #Married

If something doesn't look right, throw some glitter on it.
-- Adam Lambert

#Looks #Glitter

I wanted to look different because I felt different
-- Adam Lambert

#Different #Looks #Wanted

I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
-- Adam Lambert

#Video #Looks #Breeze

I don't like to look typical.
-- Adam Lambert

#Typical #Looks

Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.
-- Adam Levine

#Yoga #Mold #Looks

Can I see some ID?" "WE DON'T HAVE ID," said Jay, loudly. "'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN. WE DON'T USE ID...THERE. AND THAT'S WHY WE LOOK SO YOUNG. 'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN." Doug stiffened. Jay sounded crazy. Doug tried looking extra sane to even things out.
-- Adam Rex

#Crazy #Looks #Use

We [ with Andy Samberg] knew each other for the last few years, our names are similar, our looks are a little bit similar, and our backgrounds are similar. The Judaism is quite similar.
-- Adam Sandler

#Years #Names #Looks

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
-- Ade Edmondson

#People #Looks #Obsessed

We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.
-- Ade Edmondson

#Girl #Laughing #Looks

Exploiting yourself sexually is not a good look. I don't find it encouraging...I just stand there and sing. I'm not worried that I'm a 'plus size' and so much bigger than other artists. No matter what you look like the key is to be happy with yourself.
-- Adele

#Artist #Keys #Looks

I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like
-- Adele

#Self Esteem #Worry #Looks

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
-- Adele

#People #Looks #Goes On

I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
-- Adele

#Lunch #Looks #Way

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.
-- Adele

#Insecure #Looks #Want

You can't complain about your dressing room or you'll look like Celine Dion.
-- Adele

#Complaining #Looks #Rooms

I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Boys #Men #Looks

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
-- Adolf Loos

#House #Looks #Rooms

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.
-- Adora Svitak

#Girl #Rights #Looks

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.
-- Adrian McKinty

#Animal #Dna #Looks

Whatever, I copied all through school, and look how well I’m doing today.
-- Adrian Young

#School #Looks #Today

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.
-- Adriana Lima

#Baby #Pregnancy #Looks

I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Looks #Proud #Roommate

It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.
-- Adrianne Palicki

#Fun #Looks #Faces

It don't matter what competition it is. I make it all look easy.
-- Adrien Broner

#Motivation #Competition #Looks

There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
-- Adrienne Rich

#Unseen #Looks #Patterns

At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings know; they just don't want to know them. They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren't working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don't want to know what's not convenient. So we pretend not to know.
-- Adyashanti

#Growing Up #Needs #Looks

The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
-- Adyashanti

#Looks #May #Easy

This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.
-- Adyashanti

#Silence #Mind #Looks

Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.
-- Aesop

#Blow #Wind #Looks

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.
-- Aga Khan IV

#Trying #Together #Looks

I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.
-- Agatha Christie

#Uncles #Aunt #Looks

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
-- Agatha Christie

#Honesty #People #Looks

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.
-- Agnes de Mille

#Dance #Song #Looks

There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it .... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
-- Agnes Martin

#Beach #Ocean #Looks

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
-- Agnes Martin

#Mind #Looks #Covered

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Reality #Complacency #Looks

Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.
-- Agrippina Vaganova

#Art #Moving #Looks

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.
-- Agyness Deyn

#Acting #Looks #Matter

I collect things that just look retarded.
-- Ahmet Zappa

#Looks #Retarded

You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
-- Ai Weiwei

#Powerful #People #Looks

I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable—how we decide what is valuable.
-- Ai Weiwei

#Thinking #Looks #Way

But even when the moon looks like it's waning...it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Life #Moon #Looks

Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions.
-- Aime Cesaire

#Brotherhood #Looks #Chill

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
-- Aisha Tyler

#Fire #Looks #Want

After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.'
-- Aisha Tyler

#Thinking #Doctors #Looks

If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Meditation #Mind #Looks

Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Thinking #Mind #Looks

The role of the artist is to not look away.
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Artist #Roles #Looks

If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Looks