"Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong."
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"You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world."
"In everything we ought to look at the end."
"I'm a woman that's living in this world of everybody telling everyone how they should look, and what they should be eating and how people can lose this much weight this fast, and it just kind of overwhelms our senses. If I could just make the tiniest bit of difference in getting rid of that because it is so annoying, I would love that."
"I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person."
"Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse."
"Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing."
"Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal."
"It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 - so they promise. And I believe it, too."
""I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko.""
"I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night"
"The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May."
"I've been told I smell good. I don't look like I smell good."
"I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in."
"I encourage you to deliberately look for something to smile or laugh about every day, and be sure to share a smile or a laugh with someone else and brighten their day too!"
"The look of a king is itself a deed."
"I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute."
"We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence."
"I look like the man in the moon."
"Sometimes I wonder what it will be like to look back on all this. Whether it will seem real."