When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. . . . For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.
The sidelong glance is what you depend on.
Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.
"Stupid English. " "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is. " He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me. " "Why not?" "He says lunch isn't a subject. " I glance at him. "It isn't. " "Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?"
The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made to work if it is charged with freshness and originality. You can have an entirely political Shakespeare production and I'll be sitting on the edge of my seat as long as it's surprising, as long as it's not just the standard, "out of the box" pseudo-transgressive production that we just see too much of nowadays.
He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.
In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.
I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.
Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.
The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.
We need to glance at our problems and stare at Jesus!
And yes, I'll admit, I am jealous. I'm jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can't.
Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
I saw a sign on the side of the road in Tennessee once that said 'dirt for sale'. . . what a great country we live in. DIRT for sale. How would you like to get inside that guys mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn't he?
The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those dimensions, protecting them, keeping them coyly under wraps. From a casual glance, you would never suspect a thing.
Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.
For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me.
I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.
