A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.
W. H. Davies

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?
Lukas Foss

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.
Czeslaw Milosz

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.
Mason Cooley

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Sarah McLachlan

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.
Marc Jacobs

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
Angelina Grimke

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
Garry Shandling

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.
Brad Paisley

I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare.
Robbie Fowler

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.
Iggy Pop

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.
Michael Landon

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.
Brigitte Bardot

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.
James Taylor

In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.
Cindy Crawford

It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.
Jeff Goldblum

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Walker Evans

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.
Kristin Hersh