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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.

I value multi-layered artwork that warrants a second glance, so I try my best to achieve that with my own work. If something is solely pretty or solely disgusting, you look at it once and get the gist and move...

Quotes by Lisa Hanawalt

Characters written in 1990 would be acting like idiots if they were cast into the present. For example, the reader might wonder: Why isn't she texting? Where's her cellphone? Can't she have a simple paternity test? For God's sake, look...

Quotes by Lisa Jackson

I take the six weeks of the school summer holidays off because I'm pretty sure I'm not going to look back on my life one day and say, 'Damn, I wish I hadn't spent so much time with my children.'

Quotes by Lisa Jewell

I must always, always have a box of Extra chewing gum in my bag because I have developed a terrible cheek-chewing compulsion. It's not only uncomfortable, but I look really weird when I'm doing it, and chewing gum is the...

Quotes by Lisa Jewell

Whenever I watch any kind of competition, my immediate reaction when they call out the name of the winner is to look at the loser.

Quotes by Lisa Jewell

I write in cafes, never at home. I cannot focus at home, am forever getting off my chair to do other things. In a cafe, I have to sit still, or I'll look a bit unhinged.

Quotes by Lisa Jewell

I never had one of those glorious young bodies that make older men and women weep. So I don't tend to look back with nostalgia or yearn for what I've lost. Because it was never all that.

Quotes by Lisa Jewell

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

Quotes by Lionel Hampton

There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay...

Quotes by Lionel Shriver

Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.

Quotes by Linton Kwesi Johnson

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain...

Quotes by Lindsay Wagner

If you really want to be able to express what goes on with other people, you have to be able to look at them and empathize with them and not judge who they are and what they do.

Quotes by Lindsay Wagner

You know, the commander-in-chief's first responsibility is look out for those in uniform who fight the wars.

Quotes by Lindsey Graham

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

Quotes by Lindsey Graham

I am one of those faces that it's sometimes, 'Oh my God, you look so familiar, but I can't pinpoint it.'

Quotes by Lindsey McKeon

Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your...

Quotes by Lindsey Shaw

I measure the amount of shows I should do by my hair. If my hair isn't good for campaigns and editorials, then obviously I am not going to look good.

Quotes by Lindsey Wixson

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.

Quotes by Linda Tripp

I don't look like a chorus girl.

Quotes by Lindsay Mendez

I certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance.

Quotes by Linda McMahon

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.