Best 85 quotes in «staring quotes» category

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.

Face your potential. It's been staring at you for far too long.

Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

Heaven doesn't laugh. It just smiles and stares.

Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me. I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo.

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.

I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.

I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away so fast it left bruises that called me a fool for hoping for more.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.

He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.

I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare.

If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.

I hurl the glass teapot to the ground. we both stare at it, stunned. "it was supposed to break," I explain after a pause, " and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me.

I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.

If you sit on, sleep on, stare at, or touch something for more than an hour a day, spend whatever it takes to get the best.

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.

Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it, it's too risky. You get a sense of it and then you look away.

It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

Let’s talk.” I pinned Red to his chair with my stare. I did deranged quite well, when the occasion required.

In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.

It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.

Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them.

Remember where you came from.

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

Scott noticed Will staring at it and grinned. "Like what you see?" Woolsey Scott asked. "I do enjoy these surprise midnight declarations. Go along, have at it.

She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.

Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.

Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms of pistil and mailbox key, and not weep for the world's darks on lights, lights on darks, how its half-tones stay unchanged in their changings, or how turning wheels and wind-trash and revolving doors weave us into wakefulness or dump us into distraction?

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare

Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

They say Australians get that ten-yard stare. It comes from the land and the horizon. You can see all around you for as far as you can see. So you just stare. I do it all the time.

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

Tyson was still staring at Chiron in amazement. He whimpered like he wanted to pat Chiron's flank but was afraid to come closer. "Pony?

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.