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The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances. -- Steve Buscemi
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. -- Frank Deford
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. -- Charles Baudelaire
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past. -- Mary Webb
If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal. -- Enid Bagnold
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Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness. -- Henry David Thoreau
The celebrations Of secret nonmeetings are empty, Unspoken conversations, Unuttered words. Glances that don't intersect Don't know where to come to rest. And only the tears rejoice Because they can flow and flow. Sweetbrier around Moscow, Alas! Somehow it is here ... And all this they will call Love eternal. -- Anna Akhmatova
On film you put all your energies into a single glance. -- Alan Rickman
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. -- George Crumb
An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words. -- Robert Smithson
You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter. -- Judith Martin
There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder. -- George Eliot
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart. -- Nancy Thayer
You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare. -- Jenny McCarthy
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance. -- Jean Rostand
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. -- James Thurber
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry. -- Harriet Martineau
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings. -- Nellie Bly
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams! -- Edgar Allan Poe
Nobody gets excited when they see me. If I put on my wizard outfit and walk around the airport for a couple of hours, I get a couple of puzzled glances. -- Andy Kindler
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them. -- Carolus Linnaeus
But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future. -- Linda Lingle
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch... you are held -- Diana Vreeland
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. -- Saint Augustine
When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice. -- Don Kardong
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen. -- Leonardo da Vinci
... no mirror keeps its glances ... -- Alice Meynell
Women's glances express what they dare not speak. -- Alphonse Karr
Faith only glances at problems, but gazes upon Jesus. -- Steven J Lawson
I can hear those glances that you think are silent. -- Jean Racine
I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances. -- Jeanette Winterson
Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime. -- Friedrich Schiller
Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery. -- Walter Raleigh
Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone's bones. -- Hannah Kent
The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat -- Frank Muir
Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know. -- John Boyne
Connor smiles with mocking warmth at him, and glances at the tattoo on his wrist. "I like your dolphin. -- Neal Shusterman
Kenzo glances up from his choppingYou look good enough to eat.Don't tell that to Stu's sleepwalkers, I say. -- Carolyn Crane
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. -- Walt Whitman
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness -- Walter Benjamin
The lustful glances thrown his way made me wish he wasn't such a damned bowl of eye candy." - Cat re: Bones -- Jeaniene Frost
THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. -- Eoin Colfer
Holy fu-" he starts then catches himself."Yes,this tithe will be most pleasing to her Goodness." Me and Magnus exchange amused glances. -- Mari Mancusi
While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it. -- Robert E. Howard
As desires dance with dreams, as intentions dance with glances, as shivers dance with breaths, so does every pulse dance when movements flirt with feet. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit. -- George Eliot
In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object. -- Herman Melville
As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances! -- Charles Lamb
I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces. -- Frederic Chopin
She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow. -- Julianna Baggott
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort. -- Richard Steele
Both princesses immediately looked wary, exchanging glances. "Warn us of what?" Petunia asked. She studied him with those blue, blue eyes and Oliver wondered all over again what he was doing here. -- Jessica Day George
When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love. -- Patrick SÃ¼skind
And Phoebe and Sebastian went their separate ways, to the blacksmith shop and the library, after several backward glances that weren't coordinated enough to allow either to know that the other one was looking. -- Jean Ferris
What joy when the insouciant armadillo glances at us and doesn't quicken his trotting across the track into the palm brush. What is this joy? That no animal falters, but knows what it must do? -- Denise Levertov
Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background. -- Dana Reinhardt
Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls from his high estate. -- John Peter Altgeld

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