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Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at -- Arthur Danto
Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought with the invulnerable tide. -- William Butler Yeats
Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so. -- Rob Schneider
I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world. -- Donna Rice
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him. -- Loretta Lynn
My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them. -- Billy Corgan
The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests. -- Stephen Hadley
For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go. -- Stella Young
While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox. -- Barry McGuigan
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. -- William Gibson
First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd never get in there. The drivers wear the whole car like a tight-fitting suit. -- Chris Hemsworth
A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at. -- Rupert Sheldrake
The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people. -- Jennifer Saunders
My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that? -- Andy Kaufman
When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to. -- Tom Cruise
Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me. -- Rush Limbaugh
I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited. -- Andrew Bird
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. -- Igor Stravinsky
My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling. -- Al Jarreau
One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-volt atom smasher - a betatron - in the garage?' And my mom stared at me, and she said, 'Sure. Why not? And don't forget to take out the garbage.' -- Michio Kaku
You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks. -- Carole Bouquet
The Weezer 'Blue' Album is a classic. I think My Morning Jacket's 'Circuital' is a great album to have. Any Led Zeppelin album. Pink Floyd 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' or 'Animals.' I always catch myself at concerts being like, 'Oh, I just stared at the drummer for 15 straight minutes.' I study them. -- Christopher Mintz-Plasse
The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at her like, 'What kind of an alien creature are you?!' Because it was so incomprehensible to me that someone could dislike reading! That really started my desire to help other children love reading and writing. -- Adora Svitak
The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive. -- Rahul Dravid
I don't dress to be stared at. I dress for myself. -- Iris Apfel
Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror. -- P. G. Wodehouse
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows. -- Mike Carey
the more you stared up crap the more it's going to smell (/) -- Mary Sumner
She stared at him, horrified. And thrilled. And horrified at being thrilled. -- Tessa Dare
And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits. -- C. S. Lewis
Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so -- Rob Schneider
I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists? -- Richelle Mead
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. -- Adam Duritz
He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe. -- Lilith Saintcrow
I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful. -- Stephenie Meyer
I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines. -- Alice Sebold
I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh. -- Jim Butcher
Colin stared at the officer. "Thorne, you scare me. I'm not ashamed to say it. -- Tessa Dare
Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien." "Yeah, but he's a cute one. -- Mira Grant
She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor. -- L. Ashley Straker
The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread. -- Enid Bagnold
He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him -- Eileen Wilks
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. -- David Foster Wallace
She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by. -- Ilona Andrews
It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick. -- Bill Hicks
I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world. -- Donna Rice
Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats. -- Neil Gaiman
Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. "Why I am I holding a dog full of angels? -- Diana Wynne Jones
You might be a redneck if you've ever stared at a can of orange juice because it said concentrate. -- Jeff Foxworthy
He stared down at me, and i examined his beautiful eyes up close, something i'd never tire of doing. -- Tammara Webber
If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back. -- Seth Klarman
He stared at his feet. "I'm still very ignorant," he said, "but at least I'm ignorant about really important things. -- Terry Pratchett
Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone. -- Fannie Flagg
Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead, -- Laurell K. Hamilton
I stared at him (Dionysus). "You're...you're married? But I thought you got in trouble for chasing a wood nymph- -- Rick Riordan
She stared at him"You'd be willing to change your life so dramatically?""Ray and Stella Quinn changed my life. -- Nora Roberts
Flea stared at us, "I can't decide what's worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose. -- Maria V. Snyder
The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky. -- Ashley Madau
For a moment she just stared, wondering if there were another girl staying here, or if Sebastian had taken to cross-dressing. -- Cassandra Clare
Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow. -- Sarah J. Maas
I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky... -- Billy Collins
He stared up at the moon, which looked like a giant hole in the sky, letting light through to the other side. -- Sarah Addison Allen
Lothaire:Hate scars. I'm physically flawless--why can't everyone be? Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran. -- Kresley Cole
So why isn't the world overrun with evil spirits?"Moira stared at her, a half-smile on her face. "Who says it isn't? -- Allison Brennan
The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass. -- Stanislaw Lem
[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill) -- Cecil Beaton
Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet. -- C. J. Cherryh
You need something," he said, and when I stared at him, he added, "Your face.""My face?""It's in need of my kisses. -- Jennifer L. Armentrout
Sebastian sighed an exaggerated sigh and swung the door shut. Clary stared at Jace. "What the f-" "Language, Fray." Jace's eyes danced. "Relax. -- Cassandra Clare
She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist. -- Sylvia Plath
He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history. -- Lisa Kleypas
I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on. -- Annabel Pitcher
We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't. -- Rick Yancey
Any moment now..." The girl [Calypso] stared out at the water. No magical raft appeared. "Maybe it got stuck in a traffic," Leo said. -- Rick Riordan
Richard opened his hand, and the key stared up at him from his palm. "By my crooked teeth," asked Richard, remembering, "who am I? -- Neil Gaiman
They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
Do you have a sleeping bag?â? I stared at him. â??No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of â??06. -- Kim Harrison
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I stared at myself in the mirror. Okay, just ugh. I had to get some sleep tonight - the bags under my eyes had bags. -- P. C. Cast
My prodding me didn't elicit a reaction. His unseeing eyes stared straight through me. Which was odd. He'd seemed so sane huddled in Cookie's trunk. -- Darynda Jones
For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers. -- Alexandra Potter
Iona stared at me for a long time. You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride. -- Barbara T. Cerny
I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees. -- Ruta Sepetys
With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement. -- Erich Maria Remarque
They stared into the distance as though they were being absorbed into an alternate space-time reality. Perhaps they were. But probably they already had been. -- Amy Tanner
Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
What? You don't think he's cute?" "I didn't really notice." "How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared at her in disbelief. -- Nicholas Sparks
Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him.Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all. -- Sarah J. Maas
Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information." -- Neil Gaiman
She stared at her face in the mirror, feeling everything around her slipping away. The face stared back, and she wondered who was looking at her. -- Joe DeRouen
Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information. -- Neil Gaiman
It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong. He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. And this was wrong. -- Jim Butcher
From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me. -- Elie Wiesel
Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers!" She shouted. The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: "Socks wi'oot feets? -- Terry Pratchett
The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine -- Charles Hard Townes
They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up. -- A. E. Housman
Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are? -- Sara Shepard
He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. -- Neil Gaiman
The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man," he said. "There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there? -- Neil Gaiman
Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.' 'Ship.' 'Ship ... Your ship is beautiful. -- Ally Carter
As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away. -- Diane Keaton
Especially since I stared studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment. -- Mariah Carey
I need to talk to Clarisse," Annabeth said. I stared at her as if she'd just said "I need to eat a large, smelly boot." "What for? -- Rick Riordan
The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him. -- Ray Bradbury
The Martians were there"?in the canal"?reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.... -- Ray Bradbury
I looked in the mirror and stared at my reflection, until I was in the head-clearing trance that comes when you stare at something for a long time. -- Nick Burd
Besides, your a cat.Its your nature to think your the center of the universe."She stared at him blankly. "But I am the center of the universe. -- Rick Riordan
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. -- Mark Twain
And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face. -- J. K. Rowling
She stared at him in that vapid, intoxicated way employed only by women under a vamp's control. Or the way I sometimes got when faced with cupcakes. Mmm. Cupcakes. -- Kiersten White
Are you OK? I asked.I think so. Logan stared at me, and a smile pulled up his lipsBut maybe you should give me mouth-to-mouth, just to make sure. -- Jennifer Estep
He had on bunny slippers. These had fangs. They all stared at them in silence for about a heartbeat, and then Shane said, "That is impressively wicked. Crazy, but wicked. -- Rachel Caine
I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand. -- Carol Rifka Brunt
His hands reached for me, gripping my hipbones and pulling me forward. he stared down at me, his voice low. "There are some things I will make time for, Jacqueline. -- Tammara Webber
Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison. "You take the poetry out of everything.""Says the man who'd just punch the haystack. -- Keith R.A. DeCandido

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