Frank Sinatra
Singer, Actor
"I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest."
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Staring
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Walker Evans
Photographer
"Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
Henry James
Author
"She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing."."
Haruki Murakami
Writer
"Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever."
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"You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU."
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"Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye."
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"It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop."
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"You can know who a person is simply by staring into their eyes."
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"They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God."
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"The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves."
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"Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it."
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"He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy."
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"I really think you stare at yourself and you see things."
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"Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??"
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"When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you."
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"If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long."
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"The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death."
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"Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility."
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"He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit."
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"Killed?" said Hagrid loudly, staring down at Harry. "Snape killed? What're yeh on abou', Harry?" "Dumbledore," said Harry. "Snape killed... Dumbledore."
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"Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself."
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"Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all."
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