Staring Quotes

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
Frank Sinatra

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
Marilyn Monroe

Real, Eyes, Head

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore

Sea, Water, Standing

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage, Laughter, Wife

I got this Jesus tattoo on my wrist when I was 18 because I know that it's always going to be a part of me. When I'm playing, it's staring right back at me, saying, 'Remember where you came from.'
Katy Perry

Saying, Jesus, Remember

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Gene Fowler

Writing, Easy, Until

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Hal Holbrook

Character, Nothing, Him

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.
Paul Ryan

Life, Live, College

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
Laurence J. Peter

Yourself, Sea, Water

Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Somebody, Weirdo, Everywhere

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.
Hugh Jackman

Wife, Whole, Kid

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
Black Elk

Great, Alone, Nothing

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'
John Mayer

Life, School, Through

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.
Marc Jacobs

Black, Put, Line

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
James Thurber

Face, Structure, Sentence

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
Bono

Famous, Different, Become

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.
Glenn Beck

Time, Dad, Tell

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.
Diablo Cody

Time, School, Clock

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.
Johnny Vegas

Great, Job, Thought

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.
Ricky Williams

Everything, Talk, Judging

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
Flannery O'Connor

Nothing, Attention, Writer

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.
Fred Durst

Emotional, Lost, Down

I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.
Ricky Williams

Time, Home, Why

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.
Jason Aldean

Food, Yourself, Night

When I'm into a woman, I literally can't stop staring. I'm like a little kid. I become completely entranced.
Bradley Cooper

Woman, Become, Stop

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
Damien Hirst

Live, Question, Face

As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able to inspire young black girls everywhere, to go into Macy's or Nordstrom's and see their face staring back at them - I wouldn't believe them.
Nicki Minaj

Girl, Black, Young

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.
Ben Kingsley

Work, Help, Play

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?
Wislawa Szymborska

Someone, Nothing, Person

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
Albert Brooks

Mind, Sometimes, Actor

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