Staring Quotes

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

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.

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.

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.

Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo.

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.