Peering Quotes
49 quotes by 48 authors
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Never does one so constantly see so many different things as when peering from a small window.
— Masuji Ibuse
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The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at…
— Charles Macomb Flandrau
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If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.
— Italo Calvino
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I wear mostly black Main Line or T… But the other day, the sun was shining so I wore blue jeans. It caused so much…
— Alexander Wang
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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from…
— Janet Burroway
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Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool…
— Michael Shermer
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When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop himself…
— Willie Morris
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The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.
— Zainab Salbi
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Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.
— Don Tapscott
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Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering…
— Jeffrey Rosen
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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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Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Nurse Rozetta, I won't let her catch me peering down her sweeter.
— Alice Cooper
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We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's…
— Robert Musil
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
— Robert Smith
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...But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves…
— Neal Stephenson
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,…
— Anne Fadiman
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Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out…
— Sarah Dessen
Who Wrote These Peering Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 49 Peering Quotes, led by these top contributors: