Top 768 Gaze Quotes & Sayings

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are extinguished (the tigers, the leopard frogs, the plunging dolphin flukes), flicker and are extinguished, by us, by us, we gaze and gaze. Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.

During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set. While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else. By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way. I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’

The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.

It's so important to see everything through every gaze and the female gaze in terms of sex is not something we have seen much of. Let's reassert that balance!

Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.

People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.

Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.

The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

If you raise your gaze, you don't see the boundaries anymore.

For me, the male gaze is oppressive. And I hope if we are building a female gaze that it's inclusive, and it's about pure desire and not how I want people to look in order for them to be desired by me.

The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.

Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above.

I feel myself in ways to be the product of internalized male gaze.

It is important that we have the inner richness to be able to look up at the stars or the moon and compose a poem once in a while. When we open wide our minds and fix our gaze on the universe, we fix our gaze on our own life.

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.

Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self.

If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him.

If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do.

An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

And what are you doing here, Nicholas? Decided to watch me sleep?" "Yes," said Nick, and bowed is head over his sword again. He had tissues, oil, and sandpaper laid out on the windowsill in front of him, and a little stone block he was passing his sword up and down, very carefully. "I came to gaze upon your sleeping face. Only you had the blanket over your head, so I just had to gaze at a lump I thought was your sleeping face, and that turned out to be your shoulder. Which just wasn't as special." ~Nick and Mae

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.

The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now that's a question.

Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her like she's a piece of meat, like she's an animal. That just means you've lost respect for a fellow human being. You're looking at her like an ape looks at a female ape, like a dog looks at a female dog.That's all, you've turned into an animal. Regain your humanity. Lower your gaze.

Are you sure you want me to go after Christina? Lately I've kind of thought I might just give up on that. Plus, didn't you and I need to gaze into each other's eyes first? How will I know how to gaze at Christina? And my pebble kicking? Disaster.

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?

Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

Giving the tortoise a little wave, I kind of felt stupid afterward for doing so. It just stuck its head back in its green and brown shell. "That's a very interesting pet." "And those are very interesting shorts." His gaze dropped. "What are they?" Leaning forward his eyes narrowed and I stiffened. "Pizza slices?" Heat swamped my cheeks. "They're ice cream cones." "Huh. I like them." Straightening, his gaze drifted up me slowly, leaving an unfamiliar wake of heat behind. "A lot.

Hawke's gaze was so innocent, Andrew knew it was pure bullshit

Are we human because we gaze at the stars or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?

Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to become truly ourselves... His gaze, the touch of His heart heals us through an undeniably painful transformation "as through fire". But it is a blessed pain, in which the holy power of His love sears through us like a flame, enabling us to become totally ourselves and thus totally of God.

They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.

I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.

I hate people who 'gaze rape' me.

The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains.

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.

Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward.

I identify myself with the male gaze, I grew up with the male gaze, I've been excited by the male gaze. I'm a product of that culture.

You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.

Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.

Fortuitous mostly for me,Lady Holloway," she said, her gaze steadfast on her husband. "For without our being childhgood neighbors, I am certain that my husband woud never have found me." Michael's gaze lit with admiration, and he lifted his glass in her direction. "At some point I would have realized what I was missing, darling. An I would have come looking for you.

I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.