„I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.“

„Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.“

—  Margot Asquith Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit 1864 - 1945

In conversation with James Agate, September 30, 1941; reported by Agate in his Ego 5 (London: Harrap, 1942) p. 136.
Sometimes also attributed to John Maynard Keynes.

„I was a looker someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back- always everyone looking forward, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look over at you? Why would they care?“

—  Dave Eggers memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher 1970

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

„Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do - the wind that blows through the keyhole- is the breath of all the living universe.“

—  Stephen King American author 1947

Zdroj: The Wind Through the Keyhole

„The thing that nobody really said about Rebecca Adlington is that she looks pretty weird. She looks like someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon.“

—  Frankie Boyle Scottish comedian 1972

Mock the Week

„Look up to the sky
You'll never find rainbows
If you’re looking down.“

—  Charlie Chaplin British comic actor and filmmaker 1889 - 1977

"Swing High Little Girl", opening song written and sung by Chaplin for the 1969 re-release of The Circus (1928) - Full text online http://www.charliechaplin.com/biography/articles/84-Swing-little-girl

„If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.“

—  Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

Zdroj: Little Brother

„Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.“

—  Francesca Lia Block American children's writer 1962

Zdroj: Necklace of Kisses

„When someone threatens you with a machete, never turn your back. Stand still. Look him straight in the eye and ask him what the problem is.“

—  Hans Rosling, kniha Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Zdroj: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

„He didn't look back. He never did“

—  John Flanagan Irish-American hammer thrower 1873 - 1938

„The tragic youth was going down on me
(…)
I've been right and I've been wrong
Now I'm back where I started from
Never looked over reality's shoulder“

—  David Bowie British musician, actor, record producer and arranger 1947 - 2016

"Reality"
Song lyrics, Reality (2003)

„I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.“

—  George Carlin, kniha Brain Droppings

Zdroj: Brain Droppings

„Maybe if I looked in my heart, I could find a back door.“

—  Brandon Boyd American rock singer, writer and visual artist 1976

Lyrics, Make Yourself (1999)

„I've looked right through the Bible, start to finish, looking for the bit saying 'Jesus was the mind behind Ikea', then there's no evidence to suggest this at all.“

—  Russell Brand British comedian, actor, and author 1975

6 Music Show

„Through all of youth I was looking for you
without knowing what I was looking for“

—  W.S. Merwin American poet 1927 - 2019

„I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.“

—  Richard Griffiths British actor 1947 - 2013

Observer interview (2005)

„The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.“

—  Peter Benchley, kniha Jaws

Zdroj: Jaws

„I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.“

—  James Frey, kniha A Million Little Pieces

Zdroj: A Million Little Pieces

„I think in other things that I've done, I can look back and see: "This idea developed from something else."“

—  Leslie Lamport American computer scientist 1941

Sometimes it would lead back to a previous idea of mine, very often it would lead to something somebody else had done. But the Bakery algorithm just seemed to come out of thin air to me. There was nothing like it that preceded it, so perhaps that's why I'm proudest of it.

As quoted in [Dahlia Malkhi, Concurrency: The Works of Leslie Lamport, https://books.google.com/books?id=z_m2DwAAQBAJ, 16 September 2019, Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 978-1-4503-7273-2, 137]

„I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.“

—  Patti LaBelle American singer-songwriter and actress 1944