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  • Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. -- Walker Evans
  • It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. -- Walker Evans
  • It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. -- Walker Evans
  • O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed. -- W. H. Auden
  • You're staring.''You're my wife. I'm allowed to stare.''Is that the rule?''Yes. Stare, leer, ogle, anything I want. Trust me. I'm a lawyer. -- William Landay
  • The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too amazed for words, Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds. -- Thomas Gray
  • Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden. -- Tom Hodgkinson
  • Please, always look at me this way. Stare into my eyes and see me for who I am and know that there is nothing more than this. When the world calls things into question, you need not question me because I will always be here for you. -- Renea Mason
  • Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare. -- Tamara Ecclestone
  • It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse. -- Jeff Goldblum
  • Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. -- Sarah McLachlan
  • What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? -- W. H. Davies
  • A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. -- W. H. Davies
  • If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare. -- Jenny McCarthy
  • Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. -- Alexander Graham Bell
  • I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway. -- Iggy Pop
  • The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. -- Vance Havner
  • People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. -- Rogers Hornsby
  • War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name. -- Aaron Huey
  • Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see. -- Angelina Jolie
  • If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours. -- James Taylor
  • Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it. -- Barbara Kingsolver
  • I go to Topman at lunchtime and stare at these beautiful, beautiful people who work there and who are so well-dressed. And I think: 'Oh! I want to look like that! They're amazing, how well-dressed they are!' -- Nicholas Haslam
  • I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed? -- Angelina Grimke
  • The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable. -- Terri Clark
  • The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step. -- Regina Brett
  • I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles. -- Jack White
  • I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder. -- Tom Hodgkinson
  • Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand. -- George Formby
  • If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I'm just not going to go outside the house. I'm going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that. -- Tom Brady
  • First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in person. Players can't hide behind pads or helmets, so we can stare at them, evaluate every move they make: running, jumping, walking, even ogling the cheerleaders. We can see every ripple and tattoo. If they're lazy, we can tell. -- Bill Simmons
  • In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium. -- Jonathan Larson
  • Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet. -- Lionel Messi
  • He had a thousand-year-old stare. -- Louise Erdrich
  • I am Midnight (cats stare dumbfounded) -- Erin Hunter
  • Everything's weird if you stare at it. -- Sam Lipsyte
  • I gave her my deluxe I'll-Kill-You-Later stare. -- Rick Riordan
  • People who stare deserve the looks they get. -- Malcolm Forbes
  • Feel free to listen, feel free to stare. -- Ani DiFranco
  • Close your eyes and stare into the dark. -- Cecelia Ahern
  • It's okay to look back, just don't stare. -- Doris Roberts
  • People will stare. Make it worth their while. -- Harry Winston
  • Don't stare out the window; run through the fields. -- Marty Rubin
  • I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours. -- Ken Jennings
  • I do not stare at a gentleman in distress. -- Arthur Balfour
  • Fix your eyes on Jesus; it's ok to stare. -- Bob Goff
  • Give me a window and I'll stare out it. -- Alan Rickman
  • I stare out the window and wait for spring, -- Rogers Hornsby
  • Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won. -- John Prine
  • Your eyes were too intense to stare into for long. -- Lucy Christopher
  • It dims the brightest spirit, to stare into the dark. -- Julie E. Czerneda
  • Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself. -- Frank Herbert
  • We need to glance at our problems and stare at Jesus! -- Joyce Meyer
  • Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it? -- Richard Siken
  • I really think you stare at yourself and you see things. -- Drake
  • Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • A stare is really nothing more than what you're thinking inside. -- Ray Liotta
  • Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare -- Anton Ehrenzweig
  • Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench. -- Jim Butcher
  • If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined. -- Brigitte Bardot
  • If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long. -- Mark Twain
  • Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem. -- Mason Cooley
  • Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience... -- Dean Koontz
  • When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare. -- Adam Sandler
  • If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you. -- Cory Doctorow
  • I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs -- John Elder Robison
  • I will look at the past, but I will not stare at it. -- M. Spio
  • There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you. -- Charles Bukowski
  • If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity. -- Mark Andrus
  • Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes. -- Christian Louboutin
  • That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid. -- Orson Scott Card
  • She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so. -- Diane Duane
  • If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude. -- Rick Yancey
  • Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed! -- Elvis Presley
  • The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death. -- Albert Camus
  • The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other. -- Ingmar Bergman
  • I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV. -- Michael Landon
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  • Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare! -- Tim Heidecker
  • I cannot wait to stare into the face of my children and be in love. -- Rachel Walden
  • It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. -- Vaclav Havel
  • When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it. -- Cecily von Ziegesar
  • I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare. -- Flora Rheta Schreiber
  • Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face. -- David Sedaris
  • What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. -- W. H. Davies
  • How rare to stare into the face of death... Something I never intend to do again. -- Ichabod
  • My favorite part is that 1-on-1 matchup... Block out everything else and stare into that guys eyes. -- Dwight Freeney
  • I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time. -- Gloria Estefan
  • Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance? -- Steven Pressfield
  • Look in the mirror and stare at your eyes and say, "I can and will be successful." -- Robert Cheeke
  • It's terrific, Clare," Henry says, and we stare at each other, and I think, "Don't leave me. -- Audrey Niffenegger
  • The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience. -- Richard Foreman
  • To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder. -- George MacDonald
  • I realize I stare at everyone, especially when I'm walking down the street. I'm just a curious person. -- Penn Badgley
  • Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter. -- Sydney J. Harris
  • Don't stare at the past or you'll walk right by today's opportunity. Today is God's gift to you. -- Benjamin Lotter
  • Horses are like giant possums that you can ride and they stare at you and have terrifying boners -- Jeffrey Rowland
  • And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell? -- Edvard Munch
  • Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies. -- Christopher Pike
  • I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em, they stressed out and goin' under. -- Tupac Shakur
  • I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not. -- Suzanne Collins
  • Whether or not storms come, we can not choose. But where we stare during a storm, that we can. -- Max Lucado
  • First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes. -- Denis Diderot
  • I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare; And all this I can do, because I dare. -- Theresa Villiers
  • Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of streets. -- Suman Pokhrel
  • My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me. -- Paula McLain
  • I could stare at you for a lifetime. It would never grow old." "Even when I'm old?" "Even then. -- J. Lynn
  • My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant. -- Kristin Hersh
  • When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee. -- Dean Koontz
  • I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust. -- Nicole Krauss
  • Are you just gonna stare at Jack or are we gonna go?" Milo asked, poking his head into the bedroom. -- Amanda Hocking
  • When people stargazing, they stare at stars,and many other things which they've already presumed commonly and universally as stars. -- Toba Beta
  • Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. -- Haruki Murakami
  • Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book. -- Wally Lamb
  • If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you -- Barry Lopez
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