I bowl so slow that if after I have delivered the ball and don't like the lookof it,I can run after it and bring it back.

-Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.

-Davies, Robertson
  Of  World War I. Fifth Business, pt.2, ch.1.

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour. Let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou have paid thy utmost blessing.

-de la Mare,Walter
  'Fare Well'.

I ask you to look both ways.For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

-Eddington, SirArthur Stanley
  Stars and  Atoms, lecture1.

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.

-Fields,W C originally  William Claude Dukenfield
  Mississippi.

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

-Gibbons, Kaye
  In the NewYork Times,7  Jan.

For a woman, she has extraordinary talent.One must look for what she does, not what she fails to do.

-Goethe,JohannWolfgang von
^8  Of the painter  Angelica Kauffman. Italienische Reise (published1816^17, translated by W H  Auden and Elizabeth Mayer as Italian Journey,1962).

We can now look forward with something like confidence to the time when war between civilised nations will be considered as antiquated as a duel.

-Gooch, George Peabody
History of Our Time1855^1911.

For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

-Gray,Thomas
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.85^8.

  Never let success hide its emptiness from you; achievement its nothingness; toil its desolation. Keep alivetheincentivetopushonfurther, that pain inthesoul that drives us beyond ourselves. Do not look back, and do not dream about the future either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny are here and now.

-Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl
Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).

To be a successful father, there's oneabsoluterule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
Quoted in  A E Hotchner Papa Hemingway (1966), pt.2, ch.5.

Look at little Johnny there, Little Johnny Head-in-Air!

-Hoffmann, Heinrich
  Struwwelpeter,'Johnny Head-in- Air'.

Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'The Starlight Night'.

Visage de tra|"tre! Quand la bouche dit oui, le regard dit peut-e"  tre. Face of a traitor! When the mouth says yes, the look says maybe.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Ruy Blas, act1, sc.2.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  The Devils of Loudun, ch.11.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

-Jerome,Jerome K(lapka)
  Three Men in a Boat, ch.15.

Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, Nov. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed, Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

-Jonson, Ben
^10  Epicoene, act1, sc.1.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  Tales of a Wayside Inn, pt.3.'The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth'.

Whose love isgiven over-well Shall look on Helen's face in hell Whilst they whose love is thin and wise Shall see John Knox in Paradise.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
  Not So Deep as AWell,'Partial Comfort'.