Cursory Glance Quotes & Sayings

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance. — Jean Cocteau

So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance. — Howard G. Hendricks

The man gave Dodger a cursory glance that had quite a lot of curse in it. — Terry Pratchett

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments, you are struck every time by the singularity of the events in which you took part, the unique individuality of the characters whom you met. This singularity is like the dominant note of every moment of existence; in each moment of life, the life principle itself is unique. The artist therefore tries to grasp that principle and make it incarnate, new each time; and each time he hopes, though in vain, to achieve an exhaustive image of the Truth of human existence. The quality of beauty is in the truth of life. — Andrei Tarkovsky

I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form. — Alan Ruck

My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image. — Thomas Ruff

Very often on some of this stuff when I'd have to go to work. I'd just give the script a cursory glance. I had no training, and I was a quick study, so nobody knew how involved or not involved I was. But I look at that stuff now and I can see I wasn't involved, and I wasn't very good. — Jackie Cooper

Be my bedtime story and the thoughts that won't let me fall asleep. Be the conversation that I always have in my head at 3 AM and that beautiful voice that never lets me sleep. — Akshay Vasu

Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so. Legal or illegal, they are almost universally good people who work to better their lot and that of their children. — Mark Helprin

I already told you I hate these questions. You only ask the ones you know the answers to. You might as well have the conversations with yourself. — Donna Augustine

What was wrong with me? Even a cursory glance at the revelers behind me showed other people had no trouble with boisterous crowds, and some even relished them. And although I might not have minded viewing the kinetoscope, the promise of winning cheap prizes by shooting clay pigeons or tossing a ring onto a milk jug held no appeal for me. I'd rather be curled up in a chair at home, reading a book — Jordan L. Hawk

Would you let the aliens land, please? They might be here to pick me up. — Bill Hicks