#staring

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

— Gene Fowler

#blood #drops #easy #forehead #form

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining. ↗

— Bret Michaels

#complaining #concert #go #hours #shoes

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. ↗

— Emily Carr

#big #born #dialect #different #half

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#display #i #kid #little #little kid

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#begin #characters #defects #dwell #engaging

Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. ↗

— Darryl F. Zanuck

#after #any #box #captures #every

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#all day #becomes #day #fans #good

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#all day #becomes #day #fans #good

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?' ↗

— John Mayer

#because #bed #blessing #ceiling #four

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#attention #does #his #never #nothing