Hangdog Look Quotes & Sayings

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. — Robert Breault

When I came to myself again, I said - 'When I get so that I can do that, I'll be able to raise the dead, and then I won't have to pilot a steamboat to make a living. I want to retire from this business. I want a slush-bucket and a brush; I'm only fit for a roustabout. I haven't got brains enough to be a pilot; and if I had I wouldn't have strength enough to carry them around, unless I went on crutches.' 'Now drop that! When I say I'll learn {footnote ['Teach' is not in the river vocabulary.]} a man the river, I mean it. And you can depend on it, I'll learn him or kill him. — Mark Twain

With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter. — Sylvester Stallone

I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire - well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon at folk who aren't worth the mooning. Bones are the ones that have to make the journey, fight the monster, kneel before whomever is big on kneeling these days. Bones do the work for the heart's grand plans. Bones know what you need. Hearts only know want. — Catherynne M Valente

Fine," Julian agreed grudgingly. "But if that idiot Barack happens by with his hangdog look, tell him to keep going. — Christine Feehan

Anything you are exclusively attached to & identify with ends up distorting & limiting awareness. — Ken Wilber

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French. — P.G. Wodehouse

Sometimes ... a person is up against more than they can handle. And sometimes a person loses, no matter what they're fighting for. — Jessi Kirby

It's Cash and Jewel and Varadaman and Dewey Del', pa says kind of hangdog and proud too, with this teeth and all, even if he wouldn't look at us. 'Meet Mrs Bundren', he says. — William Faulkner

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance. — Thomas Paine

I'd programmed and dropped in a few back-to-back flicks starring Gamera, my favorite giant flying turtle. — Ernest Cline

In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this! — Parminder Nagra

With Angela drawn to the hangdog look and Malachy lonely after three months in jail, there was bound to be a knee-trmbler.
A knee-trmbler is the act itself done up against a wall, man and woman up on their toes, straining so hard their knees tremble with the excitement that's in it. — Frank McCourt

Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects. — Martin Rees

The most beautiful things in life happen, when they are least expected. — Deepak Rana

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it. — Gillian Anderson

Our differences in beliefs
do not truly separate us,
or elevate us over others.
Rather,
they highlight the rich tapestry
that is humanity. — George Takei