(50 quotes found)
“I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.”
George W. Bush
“I was watching an HBO special the other night on real-life maximum-security-prison guys. I glanced up, and my poster was in quite a few cells. I was screaming 'Oh, no!'”
Carmen Electra
“And see all sights from pole to pole, / And glance, and nod, and bustle by; / And never once possess our soul / Before we die.”
Matthew Arnold
“I watched the ice hockey and never even glanced at the speed skating.”
Chad Hedrick
“I used to dreamI used to glance beyond the starsNow I don't know where we arealthough I know we've drifted farWhat about yesterdayWhat about the seasThe heavens are falling downI can't even breatheWhat about the bleeding EarthCan't we feel its woundsWhat about nature's worth?It's our planet's womb.”
Michael Jackson
“My dearest colleagues seem to become metamorphosed into snarling beasts if I as much as glance at them, even if my glance is a complimentary one.”
Harry Ellis Dickson
“The doctor glanced up at the statue of the Republic, then said he did not know if he was using the language of reason but he knew he was using the language of the facts as everybody could see them - which wasn't necessarily the same thing”
Albert Camus
“To see I was born, To look is my call, To the tower sworn, I delight in all. I glance out far, And see what is near... You blessed eyes, What you saw everywhere,”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw”
Henry David Thoreau
“The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them into shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a na”
William Shakespeare