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Look Quotes

On perspective, hindsight and how we choose to see things.

The quotes here range from looking back on a career with no regrets to noticing how children in very different places can end up facing strikingly similar struggles. For more on outlook, see our Life quotes.

That something that I fought so hard for throughout the beginning of my career is I didn't want to pancake my skin a lighter color to fit into the... ballet. I wanted to be myself. I didn't want to have...

Quotes by Misty Copeland

It's a European art form, and you're used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don't look like a lot of the girls around me.

Quotes by Misty Copeland

Planet Earth is estimated to have a lifetime of nine billion years. And we're right smack in the middle of our lifetime. We've been in the universe for 4.5 billion years. So, that should mean something. We should sort of...

Quotes by Miriam Defensor-Santiago

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

Quotes by Miriam Makeba

If I was going to direct an episode of 'Younger', I wanted it to look like an episode of 'Younger.'

Quotes by Miriam Shor

I do feel like, especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, 'Oh my God, you aren't making your own clothes? You didn't make your own bread? And you also don't have a career, and you don't look unbelievable,...

Quotes by Miriam Shor

I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.

Quotes by Miriam Toews

I hate the fact that we all feel the pressure to go to gyms, have a trainer if money allows, get jogging - all those societal pressures to keep fit and look a certain way.

Quotes by Miranda Hart

When my sitcom 'Miranda' first became successful, I was so in the thick of working and I was so stressed that I didn't really enjoy the moment. You suddenly look back and go, 'Gosh, you've just got to enjoy every...

Quotes by Miranda Hart

I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want...

Quotes by Miranda July

My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then...

Quotes by Miranda Leek

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

Quotes by Miranda Otto

Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

Quotes by Minnie Driver

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

Quotes by Minoru Yamasaki

If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man,...

Quotes by Minoru Yamasaki

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

Quotes by Minoru Yamasaki

If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.

Quotes by Minoru Yamasaki

I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When I married Mahmood I became a daughter-in-law of Africa. That really changed my worldview. I can see it...

Quotes by Mira Nair

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

Quotes by Mira Nair

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

Quotes by Mira Sorvino

Frequently Asked Questions

What different senses of "look" appear on this page?
The quotes use "look" in a few ways - looking directly at something to understand it, looking back on one's life without regret, and describing how situations can look similar across different contexts. For more general reflections in this everyday-word style, see Like quotes.
Is there a quote about having no regrets?
Yes: "I look back, and I have no regrets, truly. Everything led me to the place where I am now." For more reflections on life's path, see Life.
Does this page include any perspective on filmmaking?
Yes: "You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates" makes a direct statement about how film should be watched and understood.
Is there anything here about children or education?
One quote touches on how children facing poverty attend schools not designed to meet their needs, noting that marginalized children's circumstances can look alike across different countries. For more uplifting reflections along these lines, see Good.
Is there a quote about writing or editing here?
Yes, one describes the habit of rewriting books multiple times before submitting them, and taking another look after an editor's feedback, with the reminder to keep on trying. For more first-person reflections, see Me quotes.

Pair these with our Good quotes for a more upbeat perspective, or Like quotes on personal taste and preference.