Staring Quotations | Page 2

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

We're staring down the barrel of $4 a gallon for gas.

We're staring down the barrel of a loaded gun and that gun is ready to fire,

We're staring record energy prices in the face every day, it seems.

We are pleased to have been able to work this extension out with Jose. We have said over and over again that pitching is the priority when it comes to building our club. To have five All-Star caliber staring pitchers all under contract gives us an outstanding core to our club this year and into the future.

Yes, but it's my life has been wasted, And I have been the fool, To let this manufacturer use my body for a tool, I can ride home in the evening, Staring at my hands, Swearing by my sorrow that a young girl, Ought to stand a better chance, So may I w

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard

As I have told the coaches as I go around, they can encourage us by taking a time out and turning and staring at the replay booth, and that might prompt us a little bit into action to take it a little bit farther.

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

The risk is we are staring down the barrel of negative pre-announcements, so the market has the potential to be disappointed short term.

It was very nice of them, but it's weird having attention like that because I'm just not used to it. Sometimes, people will be staring and I'll think, 'Why are they staring at me? Maybe there's something on my face or something.' It is all kind of strange.

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

We all know stocks are starting to look cheap. But it's like staring into a bottomless pit right now.

Brett catches everyone staring at the puck. He's always in the open spaces to shoot. He finds the sneaky areas.

Put a picture in your wallet of what you're wishing for. That way every time you go to pay for something it will be staring you in the face.

People go shopping, we spend on so many things, and we just don't know. We don't know the prices of things. But gasoline, even when you're not buying, it's staring you in the face. Psychologists call this 'salience.'

When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.

One day I am at home, watching dramatic images of Iraqi Yazidis fleeing for their lives being aired nonstop on 24-hour news channels. Days later, I am there, staring at tens of thousands of displaced Iraqis and feeling a 35-millimeter frame cannot capture the scope of devastation and heartbreak before me.

One day we're going to be staring at nuclear weapons and it won't be Katrina facing New Orleans, it's going to be a Venezuelan nuke,

You've probably never thought about it before unless you happen to write for a living, but professional writers are doomed to spend most of their waking hours sitting by themselves at a desk, staring at a blank computer screen and waiting for lightning to strike.

They're very quiet. You can tell that there's something that they're about to do. They have the track walks before the race. They go and do their thing, and not a word is spoken between any of them. They're just staring at the track.

With a show like 'Desperate Housewives,' one of the benefits is you get to turn it into charity things. We've been doing it all along. But now, this one is staring us in the face because it's so immediate.

In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don't realize the damage until its too late.

I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.

The ball blinks, and it's hard to see. It's like staring at a strobe light.

All my life, I've felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, 'I'm not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they're coming over!'

The Northeast is staring down the barrel of a gun.

The next wave of media is to unleash the power of serving people's special interests. Every time I walk into a Borders bookstore, I spend a lot of time looking at the magazine rack ? because staring at you are all the passions of America. The bride who is about to get married, there is a magazine for her. And for the person who is a little older, there are wonderful travel and leisure magazines.

In the big city you get a little bit more of the mocking, staring and the 'hey look' stuff, ... Here, it's so small and accepting it didn't faze anybody.

I just laid awake all night last night, staring at the TV. Physically and mentally, it's just time to move on. Just time to let somebody else do it.

I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all.

If you wondered why we were staring at your shoes when you came in, we were hoping they were damp because you had to walk on water to get here.

I looked around and I didn't see people look unkempt, staring into nothingness. They were pleasant." ()

by staring at light bulbs during games. The light contracted his pupils, making his reactions harder to read.

Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??

I didn't eat or sleep for the first three days. I was just staring at the wall, and kind of in shock.

I don't know if Luke was nervous, but I was. You have a sophomore quarterback who has never started a college game and the first time he takes the field he's on his own 20-yard line and staring at a very good Big 12 defense. He didn't complete a pass on his first couple of tries, but once he completed one he turned the ball loose with a little more confidence.

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

It takes minutes to play, but 'Unmanned' sticks with you for long after the credits roll. As a part of a two-man team for an unarmed drone, you experience one day in the life of this man who's tired of staring through the camera of a drone flying around the Middle East and keeping his finger on the trigger.

In a game like this you certainly want to win, because the guy behind you in the standings is staring at you across the field.

I am Midnight (cats stare dumbfounded)

You're staring at me," Simon said. "Why are you staring at me? Have I got something on my face?

A rate hike in November is without a doubt a given. We're staring 4 percent in the face,

Sometimes, you feel like being watched from behind by someone. When you turned, it's just nothing, nobody, none, or only someone who's daydreaming and staring right through you.

The iceberg is already staring him in the face and he has time to avoid it. To be absolutely clear, let me give you our iceberg's coordinates. It is at 1.03 per cent.

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

The machines are there, they're staring at you wherever you go.

The financial side of it is pleasant of course, but that is not the main reason for me leaving my parental home in Balen. I would like to lead a bit of a normal life again. It will be nice to walk down the street without people staring at me. Every day there's a dozen of interested fans at my front door; it's getting too much. I'm getting a bit fed up with having to tell the same story twenty times a day to people I don't know at all, or having to listen to their stories. Monaco will be a better place for me to train also, in winter I often don't have the courage to go out in the bad weather, in the South training will be easier.

You can say Germany is at a tipping point. Germany is facing some choices. In the worst case, they can try to avoid it again and put things off, rather than taking their medicine. You can postpone, you can procrastinate, but eventually you have to do it. That's what is staring Germany in the face.

I'd been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One word. Necromancer.

He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.

Everyone knew the steamroller was coming, and now it's staring them in the face.

You don't want to create undue pressure, but the pressure's coming from the guys that are playing around him, ... I don't think if you were sitting there staring at the stats you would feel comfortable.

There were times when I would finish writing a sequence and I would see the face of my very well-mannered, deeply Presbyterian mother staring back at me from my imagination, looking at me with her lips pursed like, 'Douglas, what do you think you're doing?' ... But if you're tackling a figure like Sade, you have a moral obligation to be true to his spirit.

It seems like every rock he turns over, excessive spending and fiscal mismanagement is staring him in the face.

It's a silver lining, but it's not positive enough to get traders to stop staring down Rita.

I trust the people driving on the roads, not the bureaucrat staring at a map in Richmond,

For people to say he's staring at the receiver ... in our offense, he's making his reads. He's doing exactly what we've taught him.

Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away.

It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.

That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while

You are staring at me like you were going to eat me up.

Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.

I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.

Killed?" said Hagrid loudly, staring down at Harry. "Snape killed? What're yeh on abou', Harry?" "Dumbledore," said Harry. "Snape killed... Dumbledore.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

I don't know if it's a stare or if it's something I do with my eyes when I'm really focused in on someone or something. Apparently it comes out every now and then,

I'm not staring. I'm observing. . . . And what do you observe? . . . A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.

Whether or not storms come, we can not choose. But where we stare during a storm, that we can.

You gonna keep staring at me, Great Acheron, or are you ready to chew me a new one?

I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.

I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.

I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust.

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.

The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.

Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye.

This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.

It's rude to stare, but the great thing about staring at a sedated person is that they don't know you're doing it.

Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

You can know who a person is simply by staring into their eyes.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

Liadan," he said, staring intently at the ground. "Yes," I whispered. "Don't wed that man Eamonn. Tell him, if he takes you, he's a dead." --Bran

When we shot "Stargate," he [ Jaye Davidson] came up to me at one point and said, "I don't like shooting movies," and I said, "Why?" "Too many people stare at me." I said, "Then you're totally in the wrong business."

Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.

Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?

Tyson was still staring at Chiron in amazement. He whimpered like he wanted to pat Chiron's flank but was afraid to come closer. "Pony?

She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.

A stare is really nothing more than what you're thinking inside.

Something I've never seen in all my lives. I'm staring at... hope." - Wanda

I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.

Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.