Glances Quotes - Page 20

• She went away, she cut me like a knife Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life In just a glance, down here on magic street Loves a fool's dance And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Beautiful, Cutting, Knives

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• No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Ignorant, Being Free, Liberty

  L'Ami du peuple newspaper, No. 559, August 27, 1791.

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• The one piece of advice I would give to any actor is, if you want to go out on the street without being recognised, without even being looked at, go out with a 6ft 8in beautiful transsexual. No one gives you a second glance. Especially when you're 5ft 5in.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Beautiful, Giving, Advice

  "Dan the man" by Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.

  Andrew Neel

  Atmosphere, Portraiture, Remember

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• The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those dimensions, protecting them, keeping them coyly under wraps. From a casual glance, you would never suspect a thing.

  Lisa Randall

  Space, Secret, Might

  Lisa Randall (2005). “Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions”, Lane, Allen

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• In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.

  Clark Ashton Smith

  Death, Memories, Fall

  Clark Ashton Smith, “The Unremembered”

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• You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand... but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Kissing, Men, Hands

  Mikhail Lermontov (2015). “A Hero of Our Time”, p.119, Xist Publishing

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• The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Gentleman, Age, World

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That Old Birds are not to be Caught with Chaff", 1846.

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• My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival.

  Budd Hopkins

  Feelings, Sculpture, May

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• The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows. All his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, soliloquizing stream; he addresses himself to it as a lover to his mistress; he woos it and stays with it till he knows its hidden secrets. Where it deepens his purpose deepens; where it is shallow he is indifferent. He knows how to interpret its every glance and dimple; its beauty haunts him for days.

  John Burroughs

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• While we contemplate in all creatures, as in a mirror, those immense riches of His wisdom, justice, goodness and power, we should not meerly run them over cursorily, and, so to speak, with a fleeting glance, but we should ponder them at length, turn them over in our mind seriously and faithfully and recollect them repeatedly.

  Martin Luther

  Running, Mirrors, Justice

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• Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Needs, Emotion

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• In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Mother, Religious, Trials

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• In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Cities, Settling

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre or The Ambiguities”, p.277, Herman Melville

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• Every time somebody on the internet sort of glances at us sideways, we launch an attack at them. That's not going to work out for us long term, and the U.S. have to get ahead of the problem if we're going to succeed.

  Edward Snowden

  Long, Work Out, Succeed

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The federal government said today they've begun training sessions for airport security workers to provide what they call more customer satisfaction to the travels, they want to make it easier for us. They're instructing security guards to glance at your luggage tags so that they can call you by your first name. Isn't that creepy? The guy touching your wife, calling her by her first name.

  Jay Leno

  Names, Airports, Government

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• Thy dangerous glances
  make women of men;
  new-born, we are melting
  into nature again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Men, Melting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

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• Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next advances of
  our science and at the secrets of its development during future centuries? What particular goals will there be toward
  which the leading mathematical spirits of coming generations will strive? What new methods and new facts in the
  wide and rich field of mathematical thought will the new centuries disclose?

  David Hilbert

  Lying, Goal, Secret

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• An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Islands, Imagination, Mysterious

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.243, Princeton University Press

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• Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Imagination, Excuse

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.159, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.

  Walter Raleigh

  Light, Pops, Artillery

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• But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

  Philip Guston

  Art, Self, Judging

  'ARTnews Annual', Artnews Associates., October 1966.

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• When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spring, Eye, Joy

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• Like a dart the present glances,
  Silent stands the past sublime.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Past, Sublime

  Friedrich Schiller, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete ... Attempted in English by E. A. Bowring”, p.259

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• Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Love, Dust, Evil

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