Quotes with looking

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  • Fanny Burney There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
    Fanny Burney
    English author (1752 - 1840)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Ansel Adams These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • John Osborne They spend their time looking forward to the past.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Alan Watts Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bryant Gumbel This comes at a time when Republicans are looking to gut the Clean Water Act and also the Safe Drinking Water Act. What are our options? Are we now forced to boil water because bottled water is not an economically feasible option for a lot of people?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Three things alone are certain when you venture into a loft: that you will crack your head on a beam at least twice, that you will get cobwebs draped over your face, and that you will not find what you went looking for.
    Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Jane Austen To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Carl Sandburg To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Benny Goodman To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Oscar Wilde We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Maris We are looking for highly technical, enthusiastic and capable entrepreneurs who have a healthy disregard for the impossible, and that's not always easy to find.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Buzz Aldrin We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Paul Auster We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.
    Moon Palace (2010) 119
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Bryant Gumbel We keep looking for some good to come out of this. Maybe it might help in putting race relations back on the front burner after they've been subjugated so long as a result of the Reagan years.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Bern Williams We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
    Bern Williams
    English philosopher
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