Quotes of Staring - somelinesforyou

“ I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. ”

- Emily Carr

“ In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don't realize the damage until its too late.". ”

- Bruce Sterling

“ Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction. ”

- Bob Hope

“ conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference. ”

- Ronald Heifetz

“ With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs. ”

- James Thurber

“ What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. ”

- Burton Rascoe

“ If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe. ”

- Conor Oberst

“ Captain Newcomb lit a cigar and strolled slowly toward the post office, staring about him as he walked and trying to pick out places or buildings which he remembered. ”

- Joseph C. Lincoln

“ If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance. ”

- Ben Kingsley

“ It'd be different if he was staring somebody down with a loaded gun in his hand. But there doesn't seem to be any indications whatsoever that this man poses an immediate threat to anybody. ”

- Richard Gere

“ Writing is easy. All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead. ”

- Gene Fowler

“ The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass. ”

- Unknown

“ You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. ”

- James Thurber

“ What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. ”

- Burton Rascoe

“ Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, "I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?". ”

- Bette Midler

“ If the British public falls for Labour's policies, I say it will be stark staring bonkers. ”

- Lord Hailsham

“ Asked to name her most prized possession: My cats. Bjorn and Brian Dennehy. They're Abyssinian. They're amazing, they're really like dogs. I actually went to a psychic once, and she said, 'You have two cats.' And I said, 'Yes, I do.' And she said, 'Yeah, there's one in particular, he's brown, he's a deep thinker, that cat… ”

- Emma Caulfield

“ It's sometimes distractingto see a group of girls staring and giggling. You are a part of their life, and there is a lot that is owed them. But it's difficult because you want to make eveyone happy. If you try to do that, you're setting yourself up for failure. ”

- Jonathan Taylor Thomas

“ Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ”

- Margaret Halsey

“ The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ After a sabbatical from radio for nearly a year, I needed to work with Charlie again. Ventriloquism is not like riding a bicycle. I have to keep practicing or Charlie would sit tounge-tied, silently staring at me with the chill eye of a department store dummy. ”

- Edgar Bergen

“ You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson
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