Looking Like Quotes

219 quotes by 182 authors

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead. — Robin Hobb
...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation… — James Redfield
His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed… — J D Salinger
My right hand was sort of casually near my gun, without looking like I was reaching for my gun. It wasn't easy. Reaching for a… — Laurell K. Hamilton
The bravest people are the ones who donâ€™t mind looking like cowards. — T.H. White
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? — Mark Twain
Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children. — Rick Riordan
See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing… — Aravind Adiga
All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz… — Robin Hobb
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a… — Agatha Christie
So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread… — Robin McKinley
What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like something else. And… — Robin McKinley
Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants. — Jonathan Stroud
Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage.… — Jim Butcher
Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else. — Lucy Grealy
I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering. — Josh Lanyon
Over Kyle's shoulder she could see grandpa, looking like a cross between a grizzly bear and a giant pissed-off blowfish. — P. C. Cast
Patch: "It's hard to concentrate on answers with you looking like that. — Becca Fitzpatrick
Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan. — John Kennedy Toole
She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock… — Jasper Fforde

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