Looking Down Quotes - Page 3

• Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

  Robert Wyatt

  Thinking, People, Avant Garde

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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• My Meema, her favorite show was 'Dallas.' She made the family watch. She loved to hate J.R. She passed away when I was 12, and I know she's looking down on me going, 'Oh, my goodness. How are you on the show? I am so proud of you and why in the hell are you playing J.R.'s son?

  Josh Henderson

  Hate, Son, Watches

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• Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down upon their fellow creatures with contempt, esteeming them as dogs or devils, and imagining themselves beings of superior dignity and importance, to whom all are indebted. This banishes the idea, and unqualifies the mind for the practice of common justice.

  David Rice

  Dog, Pride, Practice

  David Rice (1812). “A Kentucky Protest Against Slavery: Slavery Inconsistent with Justice and Good Policy, Proved by a Speech, Delivered in the Convention, Held at Danville, Kentucky”, p.7

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• From where I sit, battles are hard. I’ve written my share. Sometimes I employ the private’s viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader right into the middle of the carnage. That’s vivid and visceral, but of necessity chaotic, and it is easy to lose all sense of the battle as a whole. Sometimes I go with the general’s point of view instead, looking down from on high, seeing lines and flanks and reserves. That gives a great sense of the tactics, of how the battle is won or lost, but can easily slide into abstraction.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Views, Giving

  Interview with Bernard Cornwell, www.bernardcornwell.net.

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• She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Gone, Saws

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.277

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• "Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

  Umberto Eco

  Life, Home, Height

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.

  Hugh Laurie

  Believe, Destiny, Ideas

  "Stargazing: Heather's Angry, Jane is Ill, Hugh is Anxious". The Kansas City Star, October 31, 2007.

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• This looking down our noses at tea party people has got to stop.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, People, Tea

  "Chris Matthews: 'Looking Down Our Noses At The Tea Party Has Got To Stop'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 11, 2014.

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• I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. It's a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.

  Adam Duritz

  Country, Couple, Believe

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• Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.

  Vince Neil

  Kings, Hands, Left Hand

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• I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad.

  Philip Larkin

  Fear, Long, Mad

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Poesía reunida”, p.279, LUMEN

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• Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, Vision, Noses

  Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• What are you, a door mouse?!" Cloudtail mewed impatiently, prodding Lionblaze. Lionblaze looked up at the white warrior looking down at him, "Aww did you have to do that?! I was having a really great dream!" "And now you can go on a really great water patrol!" Cloudtail grumbled.

  Erin Hunter

  Dream, Warrior, Doors

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• The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Angel, Heaven, Dodgers

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• This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

  Mitchell Kapor

  People, Noses, Internet

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• I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the head, through black and cold, red and cold, brown and warm, giving water the weight and size of myself in order to imagine it, water with my bones, water with my mouth and my understanding. When my body was in some way a wave to swim in, one continuous fin from head to tail, I steered through rapids like a canoe, digging my hands in, keeping just ahead of the river.

  Alice Oswald

  Hands, Order, Rivers

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• I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

  Alan Alda

  Blow, Volcanoes, Sharks

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• Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Thinking, Agriculture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.97

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• There is only one problem: You do not trust your powers. There is no difference between you and God. Count your blessings. Be proud of yourself. Make your children, friends and neighbors proud of you. Let your touch be the Master's Touch. Serve the Age of Aquarius. Keep up and God will keep you up. Trust it. Stop looking down at yourself. Feel God within. There is no God outside of you.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Children, Healing, Blessing

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• Many of my students learn different techniques online and I have learnt a lot using this medium. Art is picking up in the Caribbean but it's unfortunate that we still have people looking down on it. Many persons who don't know better think that having a career in art is a waste of time. I guess the public just needs to be educated some more.

  St. Lucia

  Art, Thinking, Careers

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• When a vision begins to form everything changes, including the air around me. I seem no longer to be in the same atmosphere. I feel a peacefulness and a love that are indescribable. I stand alone, and nothing worldly can touch me. I feel that I am looking down from a higher plane and wondering why others cannot see what I am seeing.

  Jeane Dixon

  Air, Atmosphere, Vision

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• Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?" "Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.

  Christopher Moore

  Kings, Moving, Fall

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• When did they start coming after you?” “Was it—was it after the oil- slick Hummer crash?” the Gasman asked Iggy tentatively. My eyes widened. Oil-slick Hummer crash? Iggy rubbed his chin, thinking. “Or maybe it was more---after the bomb,” the Gasman said in a low voice, looking down. “I think it was the bomb,” Iggy agreed. “That definitely seemed to tick them off.” “Bomb?” I asked incredulously.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Thinking, Voice

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• I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Sky, Records

  "Bishop Shelby Spong". "Sunday Nights" with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. June 17, 2001.

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• If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

  Julian Baggini

  Affordable, Convenient, Ifs

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