Quotes on Looks

Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.

I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even look with charity towards the altar and the figure dangling there. She loves us both, I thought, but if there is to be a conflict between an image and a man, I know who will win. I could put my hand on her thigh or my mouth on her breast; he was imprisoned behind the altar and couldn't move to plead his cause.

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.

I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

..just do, leave it there, if it comes let it come, but don't look for it.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

Only you can control your future.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.