Looks Quotes

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

Meditate on your own and refine your consciousness. Tighten up your life. Constantly examine your life and look for weak points. You know what's going on in your life.

If you see faults in others, look the other way. Don't linger on imperfection.

Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

At 6 foot 7 Peter Crouch isn't as tall as he looks.

I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.

I love the way I look. I'm fine with it. And if my body changes, I'll be fine with that.

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.

The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Do unto yourself as your Neighbours do unto Themselves and look Pleasant.

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

I look at scripts as good or bad. If it's bad, it better pay a lot of money.

It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care.

Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

If I look back I am lost.

I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations we should do so with compassion.

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.

One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?

Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them. And the easier it looks, probably the better you are doing your job.

The kid looks good in his first game.

I sensed she [Sarah Harmer] had this look on her face like, 'Jesus, if you can do it, I certainly can.' But I had nothing to teach her, let's put it that way.

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.

You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

I guess I dont come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they dont match up, I find it frustrating.

I don't like the way my hair looks, so we're going to do the whole show over.

I always look at things as, instead of a problem, how is this an opportunity?