Staring Into Space Quotes

• It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

  Marilyn

  Sex, Real, Eye

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• 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

  Love, Inspiring, Romantic

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.127, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

  Ira Glass

  Thinking, Space, Long

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.

  Adrian Lyne

  Thinking, Space, Get Better

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• The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Cute Love, Romantic, Dance

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• Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pools or oceans because your thighs were jiggly or you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen.

  Anne Lamott

  Nice, Ocean, Kids

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• 70 percent of what we do involves staring into space trying to figure out what the hell happens next.

  Robert Gregory Browne

  Writing, Space, Trying

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• I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.

  Jean Cocteau

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

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• I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect.

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Thinking, Order

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• Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t fish, I don’t hunt, I don’t scuba, I don’t spear, don’t boat, don’t play basketball or football – I excel at staring into space. I’m really good at that.

  Iggy Pop

  Basketball, Football, Play

  "Iggy Pop: 'I was looking for an elegant coma'". Interview with Mark Tutton, edition.cnn.com. July 1, 2009.

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• The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.

  Carl Honore

  Space, Princeton University, Office

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• I'm glad He had the never while staring into space, to give this universe a time and place.

  George Strait

  Religious, Space, Giving

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• Look, Here are we, On this starry night staring into space, And I must say, I feel as small as dust, Lying down here...

  Dave Matthews

  Lying, Night, Space

  "Song: Pig (Before These Crowded Streets)". April 28, 1998.

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• When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Real, Thinking, Piano

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• Look,
  Here are we
  On this starry night staring into space.
  And I must say
  I feel as small as dust
  Lying down here.
  What point could there be troubling?
  Head down wondering what will
  Become of me,
  Why concern we cannot see
  But no reason to abandon it.
  Time is short but that's all right,
  Maybe I'll go in the middle of the night.
  Take your hands from your eyes, my love,
  Everything must end some time,
  Don't burn the day away.

  Dave Matthews

  Time, Lying, Eye

  "Song: 'Pig'". 1998.

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• And Vishous. . . V was the worst of them. He stood by the door, staring into space. Icy before, he was glacial now, a sinkhole in the room. -Phury's thoughts

  J.R. Ward

  Doors, Space, Icy

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.573, Penguin

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• You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.

  Cornelia Funke

  Morning, Real, Writing

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• You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?" My problems? "Yes.' And you'll give me answers? "I'll give you what I can. Don't I always?" I picture his grave, on the hill, overlooking the pond, some little nine foot piece of earth where they will place him, cover him with dirt, put a stone on top. Maybe in a few weeks? Maybe in a few days? I see myself sitting there alone, arms across my knees, staring into space. It won't be the same, I say, not being able to hear you talk. "Ah, talk . . . " He closes his eyes and smiles. "Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.

  Mitch Albom

  Eye, Feet, Space

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• You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel," Terry Tarsal rudley broke into Marcia's spinning thoughts.

  Angie Sage

  Hands, Space, Giving

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• It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Art, Children, Practice

  "Easy does it" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 01, 2005.

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