To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things. — Donna VanLiere Copy Share Image
The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two. — Karlie Kloss Copy Share Image
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You… — John Green Copy Share Image
The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Icons are also beautiful, with their luminous colors and gold leaf. On first glance, the subjects can seem flat, their poses artificial.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
At this time I choseas friends two little girls of my own age; but how shallow are the hearts of creatures! Oneof… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
You either fainted or you wanted a much closer look at the cracks in the tile. Either way, you hit hard." "Seriously?"… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much… — Kathleen Winsor Copy Share Image
Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
