Quotes with sharp-looking

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  • Fanny Burney For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
    Fanny Burney
    English author (1752 - 1840)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Boy George Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
    The London Evening Standard, 20 February 2006:
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Caitlin Flanagan Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • John Webster Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, but looking to near, have neither heat not light.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Casey Stengel Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ballplayer. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
    Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Hitopadesa Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Caitlin Rose Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Plato He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Ben Jonson He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.
    Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Carl Sandburg Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
    American Psycho (2014) 301
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • V.S. Naipaul I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Burt Lancaster I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
    Burt Lancaster
    American actor and producer (1913 - 1994)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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