Looking Into The Distance Quotes

1. "Depression was like wearing tinted glasses and looking through them changed one's perception dramatically. A fancy new house could be construed as a bunch of boards nailed together."
Author: A.J. Gallant

2. "Fear swallowed her, deep and dark as the ocean and she sank into it."
Author: Abby Slovin

3. "To be a full-blooded hillbilly was to be a living koan. Half of you wanted to be dignified and half of you couldn't tolerate any restraint. You could see it in the regional art and hear it in the music. Wood carving with chainsaws. Cloggers who danced up a storm with the lower half of their bodies, but held the upper half perfectly still and stared off into the distance stone-faced. Or a group of bluegrass musicians who'd be playing the most raucous tunes imaginable, looking around at each other with bemused expressions that seemed to say where's all that racket comin from?Phoebe believed that nearly all the adult males everywhere were pretty much the same way. Most of them could manage to keep the top half of themselves under a semblance of control, but the bottom half tended to run wild. As she continued to descend the trail she couldn't help but think that most men were mentally ill below the waist."
Author: Carolyn Jourdan

4. "Willingly taking a dive headfirst into the unknown takes some serious courage."
Author: Colleen Hoover

5. "The massive bronze gates were wide open now, too late. Inside, the cemetery had been turned into a grotesque place gleaming with high-powered searchlights, blue flashlight flares, winking pocket torches. Uniformed men were already swarming about. Red cigarette-embers showed oddly amidst the headstones here and there.("The Street Of Jungle Death")"
Author: Cornell Woolrich

6. "As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of knowledge."
Author: Cristina Marrero

7. "Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless"
Author: Douglas Adams

8. "The eyes are the windows of the soul.... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?"
Author: E.L. Konigsburg

9. "Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don't be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions. I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science."
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

10. "Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun."
Author: Gianni Rodari

11. "Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt."
Author: Henry Bolingbroke

12. "I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!"
Author: John Green

13. "Tis very sweet to look into the fairand open face of heaven, - to breathe a prayerfull in the smile of the blue firmament."
Author: John Keats

14. "Ohmigod," I moan, clutching my stomach. I'm sure I'm going to be sick. I'm going to become an exhibitionist vomiter.My heart is back to beating—racing, actually—as a new level beyond mortification slams into me. I sounded just like the actress in that awful video of Ben's that Kacey made me watch over the summer. Literally. I accidently walked in on those weirdos watching it one night. Kacey took that as an opportunity to pin me down on the couch while Trent, Dan, and Ben howled with laughter at my flaming cheeks and horrified shrieks.My sister is the Antichrist. This is all her fault. Hers and Stayner's. And those stupid Jell-O shooters."
Author: K.A. Tucker

15. "Before he had time to figure it out, his walkie-talkie crackled and a voice came on. He punched a button. "Sheriff here. What's up?" "Someone called about a public disturbance behind schmitty's bar," a woman's voice reported. "Cathy use the proper code number," Billy growled. "There ain't no number for a guy acting like a cockroach!" the woman yelled. "he climbed into their Dumpster and he's wallowing in the trash."
Author: Kerrelyn Sparks

16. "Thorne shuffled his feet. "You know, if it was a bad kiss, you can just say so."She stiffened. "That's not at all what I … Wait. Did you think it was a bad kiss?""No," he said, with an abrupt, clumsy laugh. "I thought it was … um." He cleared his throat. "But there were clearly a lot of expectations, and a lot of pressure, and…" He squirmed in the chair. "We were going to die, you know.""I know." She squeezed her knees into her chest. "And, no, it wasn't … I didn't think it was a bad kiss.""Oh, thank the stars."
Author: Marissa Meyer

17. "We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let it carry me."
Author: Markus Zusak

18. "I really didn't realise until I got back the work that goes into a performance. You're like an athlete - if you haven't been practising things tighten up. I had to do a lot of practice work, but I got through it. Even when I was 21 I would have a 40-minute nap on the day of a show, and I will still do that."
Author: Michael Crawford

19. "Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over."
Author: Morgan Brittany

20. "I'm not better, you know. The weight hasn't left my head. I feel how easily I could fall back into it, lie down and not eat, waste my time and curse wasting my time, look at my homework and freak out and go and chill at Aaron's, look at Nia and be jealous again, take the subway home and hope that it has an accident, go and get my bike and head to the Brooklyn Bridge. All of that is still there. The only thing is, it's not an option now. It's just… a possibility, like it's a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It's not a very likely possibility."
Author: Ned Vizzini

21. "I laughed as I thought of what Savannah would have told me had she been here. "You're capable of anything Jer. You're much stronger than you give yourself credit for. Keep pushing; it'll all be okay in the end." Then I'd turn and smile at her, nudging her in her side as she looked up towards the sky. Whenever she thought of dad, she shifted her attention towards the sky, as if she were looking for him in the clouds. It was the same thing I found myself doing now. Except I wasn't looking for dad, I was searching for her. But there was nothing. The night sky, usually lit up by the moon and the surrounding stars, was empty."
Author: Nicole Sobon

22. "The household was pervaded by this atmosphere of a calm adult woman and a man who gave into animal impulses. She reported to him in great detail what her analyst ... said about his binges and his hostility; she used Charley's money to pay Dr. Andrews to catalog his abnormalities. And of course Charley never heard anything directly from the doctor; he had no way of keeping her from reporting what served her and holding back what did not. The doctor, too, had no way of getting to the truth of what she told him; no doubt she only gave him the facts that suited her picture, so that the doctor's picture of Charley was based on what she wanted him to know. By the time she had edited both going and coming there was little of it outside her control."
Author: Philip K. Dick

23. "There will be Casnoff butt kicked and all sorts of names taken. And hey, maybe I'll get some new scars."Both of them hugged me tighter. "We love you, Soph," Mom said."Quite right," Dad added, and I laughed, even as my stomach twisted itself into a balloon animal."
Author: Rachel Hawkins

24. "For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really good comparison to the way I see my work being similarly expelled or absorbed into different types of discourse."
Author: Richard Phillips

25. "The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was."
Author: Rumi

26. "With a look of pride on his face, he pointed at my closed bedroom door. "Did you just fuck him into submission?" He held his knuckles up to me. "Nice."
Author: S.C. Stephens

27. "I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn't used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I'd walked into the end of seven years and it was all a bit tense."
Author: Sarah Sutton

28. "One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music."
Author: Stephen Sondheim

29. "Byron had drawn his pistol, and was looking closely at the leaves and dirt around him, as if he'd dropped something. "It's -- do keep calm now -- it's right over your head. I suppose you could look, if you can do it slowly."Crawford felt drops of sweat run down his ribs under his shirt as he slowly forced the muscles of his neck to tilt his head up; he saw the upper slope, bristling with trees that obstructed a view of the road, and then he saw the outer branches of the tree he was braced against, and finally he gathered his tattered courage and looked straight up.And it took all of his self-control not to recoil or scream, and he was distantly resentful that he couldn't just die in this instant."
Author: Tim Powers

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