Quotes of Glance - somelinesforyou

“ Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it. ”

- Robert Herrick

“ My dearest colleagues seem to become metamorphosed into snarling beasts if I as much as glance at them, even if my glance is a complimentary one. ”

- Harry Ellis Dickson

“ A single glance: a sudden dart of pain stitching her eyes before she made a sound. ”

- Stanley Kunitz

“ Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic with a glance analytic. ”

- James Thomas Field

“ I was watching an HBO special the other night on real-life maximum-security-prison guys. I glanced up, and my poster was in quite a few cells. I was screaming 'Oh, no!'. ”

- Carmen Electra

“ You are only what you are when no one is looking. ”

- Robert C. Edwards

“ A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them. ”

- Carolus Linnaeus

“ The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past. ”

- Mary Webb

“ There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ”

- John Muir

“ Maybe Gloria Steinem can tell the difference between pornography and erotica at a single glance. I can't. ”

- Joanna Russ

“ No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart. ”

- Nancy Thayer

“ Sometimes I think if there was a third sex men wouldn't get so much as a glance from me. ”

- Amanda Vail

“ To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. ”

- Karen Sunde

“ You affect the world by what you browse. ”

- Tim Berners Lee

“ When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. ”

- Andy Warhol

“ When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine. ”

- Len Wein

“ Like glimpses of forgotten dreams. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. ”

- Benjamin Tucker

“ Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime. ”

- Elsa Barker

“ One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. ”

- Carl Edward Sagan

“ You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ 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

“ Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry. ”

- Harriet Martineau

“ I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving, has but glanced at the joys of charity. ”

- Anne Swetcbine

“ I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance. ”

- Jean Rostand
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