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"I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction."
"O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!"
"But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend."
"Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."
"Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?"
"To beguile the time, look like the time."
"As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28)."
"Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books."
"I'll look to like; if looking, liking move."
"O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena"
"There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable."
"Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe."
"It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't."
"Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back."
"Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing."
"The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes."
"Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead."
"You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences."
"I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing."
"I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed."
