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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth. -- Sally Ride
You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down -- Charlie Chaplin
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
This looking down our noses at tea party people has got to stop, -- Chris Matthews
We've gone from looking up at the moon to looking down at Instagram. -- Bill Whittle
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up. -- Jesse Jackson
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down. -- John Masefield
The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers. -- Tommy Lasorda
I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say... -- Sitting Bull
All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar. -- Craig Stone
The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up. -- Wynton Marsalis
The only justification for looking down on anyone, is that you're going to stop and pick them up. -- Quincy Jones
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. -- Walter Smith
....and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I'll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face. -- Paullina Simons
I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there. -- Eartha Kitt
A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God. -- lecrae
A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style. -- Buddy Hackett
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. -- Gertrude Stein
I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead. -- Clark Gable
When I felt like I was looking down the barrel of nothing on the horizon it was hard for me. -- Greta Gerwig
A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you. -- Norman Reilly Raine
A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see. -- T.F. Hodge
Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand. -- Roger Caras
Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone. -- Criss Jami
You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it's the best state ever. -- Stirling Moss
If I'm in ya starting five you will never need a sub and I'm never looking down, so I always know what's up. -- Drake
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. -- Jean Paul
This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT! -- Mitchell Kapor
Lightsong met the man's eyes, then smiled broadly, looking down at the God King. "My life to yours," Lifesong said. "My breath become yours. -- Brandon Sanderson
If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable. -- Julian Baggini
My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?' Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snape's ferocious, anguished face. "?If you insist "¦ -- J. K. Rowling
I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives. -- David Sedaris
Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism. -- Robert Wyatt
I know," he said, looking down at himself self-consciously. "I am not-I mean, I look-" "Beautiful," she said, and she meant it. "You look beautiful, James Carstairs. -- Cassandra Clare
It's very intimidating to be photographed, but if I kneel down and chat with you, so you're looking down at me, it makes you feel less threatened. -- Platon
I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds. -- Buzz Aldrin
After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe. -- Robbie Fowler
My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God looking down at the characters. -- Doug Liman
The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness. -- John Ortberg
I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly. -- Penelope Keith
If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board. -- Ridley Scott
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. -- C. S. Lewis
I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they are so upset about the death thing." -- Sark
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books. -- John Shelby Spong
Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding. -- Jasinda Wilder
A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world. -- Shirley Jackson
To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color. -- Ken Follett
It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph, you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on. -- Christopher Meloni
I'm looking to do an honest job, and I don't have any Indian talk show as a reference point. I'm not looking down on them, but I want to do what Oprah did. -- Anupam Kher
You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused. -- Eliot Ness
Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us. -- Frederick Buechner
I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place. -- Jessica Lynch
Why do people care what I'm wearing or what I'm eating, and why are people looking down on me because I'm not wearing high heels? That's the downside to being in the public eye. -- Ashley Greene
I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad... -- Philip Larkin
"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height. -- Umberto Eco
This is the funny thing about Skype. No one is really looking into the camera. People always looking down because they're looking at the image. You wish the camera was there in the center. -- Stanley Tucci
I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup. -- Alan Alda
men should not be sexing their women in the missionary position because they are facing away from the sky. Instead of looking down, men are to look up. To the vastness of Father Sky -- Matthew Fox
I avoid looking down at my body, not so much because it's shameful or immodest but because I don't want to see it. I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely. -- Margaret Atwood
It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born. -- Patrick Rothfuss
The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow. -- John Muir
For me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn't help you in the present moment to deal with what you have to deal with in order to move forward. -- The Edge
An attitude of compassion does not mean looking down on someone, pitying them in their misery. Compassion is based on respect. We discuss life as equals, learn from each other and strive together to improve our lives. -- Daisaku Ikeda
I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away. -- Hugh Laurie
The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hand to touch. Vaguely, I can see you face looking down into me, as I look back. Do you see my eyes? -- Markus Zusak
A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't," Finn replied absently, still looking down at the book. "That's such a fortune-cookie answer," I said with a laugh, and even he smirked at me. -- Amanda Hocking
It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes. -- Gilles Deleuze
If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction anymore. And I share that fascination with the truth. I'm not looking down my nose at it. -- Ron Currie Jr.
There ain't nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in your mouthpiece. Five seconds to go, the boom! The bell. It's more exciting than looking down a cliff. -- George Foreman
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms." -- Charlotte Bronte
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms. -- Charlotte Bronte
It's probably this way with a lot of professionals: At first the BlackBerry is a savior, because it makes you mobile, but then it becomes a curse, because you're at a restaurant and looking down at it under the table. -- Dan Bartlett
If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down. -- James Marsden
The Eisenhower Building - the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody's looking down at their Blackberry. It's a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it's this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It's a fascinating contrast. -- Tony Hale
Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses. -- Simon Sinek
Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have. -- Joyce Meyer
Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spilled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next... -- Patricia McCormick
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves that night, as if we were other people looking down on the couple who lay together on the bed -- Siri Hustvedt
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.' -- Rebecca Romijn
Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together. -- Thomas Dolby
I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down. -- Christina Romer
I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say. -- Geronimo
Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right -- Brian Andreas
The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise. -- Eugene Cernan
The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise. -- Eugene Cernan
I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen. -- Joshua Ferris
From 1973 to 1982 I ate the exact same lunch everyday . Turkey chili in a bowl made out of bread . Bread bowl George. First you eat the chili then you eat the bowl . There's nothing more satisfying than looking down after lunch and seeing nothing but a table. -- George Steinbrenner
My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public? -- Frederick Buechner
You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway. -- Cory Lidle
When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer. -- Duane Chapman
What are you, a door mouse?!" Cloudtail mewed impatiently, prodding Lionblaze. Lionblaze looked up at the white warrior looking down at him, "Aww did you have to do that?! I was having a really great dream!" "And now you can go on a really great water patrol!" Cloudtail grumbled. -- Erin Hunter
A good DJ is always looking at the crowd, seeing what they're like, seeing whether it's working; communicating with them. Smiling at them. And a bad DJ is always looking down at what they're doing all the time and just doing their thing that they practiced in their bedroom -- Fatboy Slim
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer. -- Rick Perlstein
We should not look down on our first ancestors. -- Alice Walker
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down. -- Edmund Hillary
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. -- Rudyard Kipling
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. -- Jesse Jackson
I look at you and I write down what I hear. -- Virgil Thomson
I look forward to every script that comes down the pike. -- Colin Cunningham
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to. -- Robert Half
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up. -- Samuel Smiles
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. -- Lord Byron
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better. -- Lou Holtz
I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better. -- Tibor Kalman
I look at this in a very simple way: I want to bring the debt down. -- Amy Klobuchar
I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window. -- Deborah Moggach
You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death. -- Buddy Hackett
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. -- Winston S. Churchill
In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard. -- Andrew Vachss
I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine. -- Ron White
There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on. -- George Clooney
Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up. -- Peter Kreeft
I'm always looking for the comfiest place to lie down, like a cat. -- Naomie Harris
I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day. -- Missy Elliot
Ally McBeal walks down the streets crying, looking for the right man. I don't do that. -- Vonda Shepard

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