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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.

Look around at the countries of Europe, and you'll find that practically all of them have pasts that are just as tragic as Ireland's, yet the people seem able to find some creative way at moving into the future.

Quotes by Jennifer Johnston

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.

Quotes by Jennifer Lopez

I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the...

Quotes by Jennifer Garner

I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am...

Quotes by Jennifer Gilmore

Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding - jeans, cowboy boots, the...

Quotes by Jennifer Grant

Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant...

Quotes by Jennifer Carpenter

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Quotes by Jennifer Egan

The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about...

Quotes by Jennifer Egan

I so love the bad-boy look.

Quotes by Jenna Morasca

I definitely have hips, and I'm shorter, so I like to make my legs look longer. I'll wear shorts or pants that elongate my legs. I'm not a tiny, skinny toothpick. I definitely like to show off my waist and...

Quotes by Jenna Ushkowitz

I personally have gone to photo shoots and see the pictures afterwards, and I don't look like me because I'm just so airbrushed and so, kind of, fake and almost plastic-looking, you know?

Quotes by Jennette McCurdy

If there's an energy between two people it doesn't matter what you look like or what you do for a living or where you live.

Quotes by Jennie Garth

'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.

Quotes by Jennifer Armentrout

I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom in that - no expectations or anything like that. It was also my first contemporary novel I'd written...

Quotes by Jennifer Armentrout

All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on. I loved how you never really knew who the 'bad guys' were in their works, and I wanted...

Quotes by Jennifer Armentrout

I can't wait for everyone to read 'Don't Look Back.' It's something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so I'm very excited to be sharing the book, finally.

Quotes by Jennifer Armentrout

It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.

Quotes by Jenna Elfman

I think the dance world is really hard, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to look a certain way, and so that was a battle that I had to figure out for myself.

Quotes by Jenna Johnson

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!

Quotes by Jemima Kirke

The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no...

Quotes by Jen Lancaster

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.