Looks Quotes

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
Michel de Montaigne

Water, Matters, Straight

History never looks like history when you are living through it.
John W. Gardner

History, Through, Living

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats

Alone, Light, Shadow

No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
Paris Hilton

Sexy, Woman, Matter

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
Kathleen Turner

Women, Men, Attitude

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Bernard Baruch

Everything, Hammer, Nail

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo

Good, Painting, Sculpture

Evolution never looks to the future.
Richard Dawkins

Future, Evolution

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Grandma Moses

Hope, History, Today

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
Stephen Fry

Future, Impossible, Place

Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!
Robert Orben

Love, Great, Girl

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Hermann Hesse

Time, Home, Friendly

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
Bono

Jesus, Old, Makes

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
Barbara Corcoran

Beauty, Good, Great

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Alexander Pope

Nature, God, Through

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
James Russell Lowell

Light, Reputation, Candle

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Washington Irving

Love, Women, Kindness

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
Moliere

Peace, Everybody, Profound

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.
Marilyn Manson

Everybody, Listen, Image

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
Thomas Huxley

Knowledge, Forward, Old

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
E. O. Wilson

Real, May, Small

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky

Happiness, Small, Big

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
Paul McCartney

Fun, Actually, Quite

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.
Dolly Parton

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
Laurence J. Peter

Both, Ways, Street

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him.
Ellen DeGeneres

Someone, Him, Why

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
Bill Maher

Game, Mad, Started

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Hal Holbrook

Character, Nothing, Him

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
Jean Ingelow

Night, Moon, Flowers

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
Dylan Moran

Women, Try, Anybody

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