#looked

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#author #computer #computer program #construct #him

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes. ↗

— Cole Porter

#days #glimpse #god #goes #knows

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart. ↗

— Douglas Reed

#christian #like #looked #pagan #planted

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#dozen #editor #editors #essay #geographic

Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river. ↗

— Ann Rutherford

#always #because #brothers #contract #down

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#convincing #face #felt #i #into

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#character #father #go #i #like

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#becomes #closely #looked #wonderful

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point. ↗

— John Astin

#also #appreciated #certain #certain point #fully

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#bank #coastal #days #dover #during