Staring Quotes - Page 36

• The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

  Bob Weir

  Song, Writing, Pages

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

  Dean Koontz

  Flower, Hands, Expectations

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• It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.

  Larry Bird

  Sick, Guy, Watches

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• I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust.

  Nicole Krauss

  World, Disgusting, Mutual

  Nicole Krauss (2012). “The History of Love”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.

  Sam Snead

  Mistake, White, Balls

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• Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Mirrors, Broken, Bleeding

  Richard Paul Evans (2010). “Promise Me”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  Aaron Huey

  War, Should Have, Names

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• The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Lying, Sleep

  Charles Dickens (1841). “Master Humphrey's Clock”, p.244

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• Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Air

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.69

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• As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.

  Brian Molko

  Beautiful, Morning, Party

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• If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Use, Way, Succeed

  Lysa TerKeurst (2014). “The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.

  Henry Rollins

  Mean, Ideas, Understanding

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.

  Jim Carrey

  Mirrors, Rooms, Faces

  "New Again: Jim Carrey". Interview with Betsy Borns, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 28, 2014.

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• I always get a headache the first time I watch a movie I'm in. Because you're staring at the screen so hard, your brain is doing all this work trying to put things in context of what the day-to-day experience of making it was. And the timeline that's in your head of when it was made, and on what day, how you felt. And then you're also trying to grasp what it's been edited into.

  John C. Reilly

  Brain, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A blind man. I can stare at him
  ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it?
  No, he is in a great solitude.
  O, strange joy,
  to gaze my fill at a stranger's face.
  No, my thirst is greater than before.

  Denise Levertov

  Men, Joy, Solitude

  Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams (1967). “Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams”

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• The moon has nothing to be sad about,
  Staring from her hood of bone.
  She is used to this sort of thing.
  Her blacks crackle and drag.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moon, Darkness, Bones

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.224, Faber & Faber

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• And I have seen long fingers that would stare
  With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl
  Deftly across the counterpane and fall
  Soundless, with a wink of mild despair.

  Allen Tate

  Twilight, Fall, Eye

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.193, Macmillan

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• As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mighty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Omnipotence, Circles

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• Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.

  Dean Potter

  Wings, Shadow, Lines

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• Lift up our eyes to you?
  no, God, we stare and stare,
  upon a nearer thing
  that greets us here,
  Death, violent and near.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Death, War, Eye

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.479, New Directions Publishing

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• The one thing that seems to be consistent through all my work that I like, and I experimented a lot, is the viewer is allowed to meditate on something that normally we don't stop and stare at, whether it's people or a cactus.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, People, Cactus

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• I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject. When all of a sudden the idea of Harry just appeared in my mind's eye.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Science, Ideas

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• I grew up in a very musical household. My brother had KISS and Van Halen records, but my parents loved country and show tunes, so I had all of those records when a kid. I pretty much knew exactly what I was going to do at a young age. I loved album covers, I loved listening to a record and staring at the art while listening to it. When I got older and discovered paining, drawing and PhotoShop, I was able to do both simultaneously; I enjoy making both.

  Piggy D.

  Country, Art, Brother

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• For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're under pressure, the clock is running, 80 people are staring at you...it's always unnatural.

  Albert Brooks

  Running, People, Pressure

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• I play on my phone in public quite a lot. I pretend that I'm getting a very important message that I must attend to immediately. You will often see me in the middle of a huge crowd just staring intently at my phone because I just don't even know how I should interact with other humans.

  Roxane Gay

  Phones, Play, Important

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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