Glance Quotes

446 Glance quotes by 339 unique authors

I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive… — Charlotte Bronte
Brave words in a room full of pulseless creatures. Spade gave Don a disgusted glance while Rodney just licked his lips. No doubt he was… — Jeaniene Frost
The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago,… — Annie Dillard
Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I… — David Levithan
I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could… — Peter O'Toole
I cast a glance in my new admirer's direction. "You may call me Your Highness," I said. "Or Empress Beauty." He chuckled. I wasn't kidding. — Gena Showalter
It's my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. 'Nothing less than seven inches.' Meliorn gazed at her stonily. 'I'm talking about my heels,' she… — Cassandra Clare
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive. — Abraham Verghese
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that… — Alan Lightman
I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can feel… — Han Nolan
District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of… — Suzanne Collins
...she still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if… — Mark Z. Danielewski
The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man;… — Thomas Mann
A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob. — Laurell K. Hamilton
There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to… — John Connolly
Ghost?” St. Vincent shot him an incredulous glance. “Christ. You’re not serious, are you?” "I’m a Gypsy,” Cam replied matter-of-factly. “Of course I believe in… — Lisa Kleypas
He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could… — Michael Ondaatje
Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know. — Lisa Kleypas
Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part… — Sarah Dessen
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last… — Hermann Hesse
How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same… — Sarah Dessen
This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside,… — Sarah Dessen
With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the… — Hermann Hesse
There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared to be a… — Becca Fitzpatrick

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