Glanced Quotes
197 quotes by 105 authors
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How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few…
— Jonathan Lethem
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright…
— Kate Chopin
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The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according…
— Murasaki Shikibu
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When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.
— Ogden Nash
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Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way…
— Rae Armantrout
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When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it…
— Kevin J. Anderson
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It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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It wasn't until Hope fluttered over and landed at Alex's feet, peering questioningly up at him, that he finally tore his hands away from his…
— Meg Cabot
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Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again.…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.
— Sophie Swetchine
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We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't know each other.…
— Garrison Keillor
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Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on…
— Louisa May Alcott
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I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.
— Millard Kaufman
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Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced…
— Scott Westerfeld
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Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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No, I can just read you. Finally. I can't believe how blind I was. I can't believe I never noticed. Victor's comment...he was right." She…
— Richelle Mead
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Very slowly, she peeked around the tree trunk. Saw a slim, petite figure, flanked by two very large, very dangerous-looking soldier of fortune types picking…
— Cindy Gerard
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