Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

Look eye! Always look eye!

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.

If someone sits and stares at you while you eat, you won't even eat the way you normally do, because it'll make you so uncomfortable. If I look at my dog when he's eating, he will look at me like, "Dave, I will bite you. What are you looking at? I'm trying to eat." It's something that dehumanizes a person, being on display like that.

She looks at me. She does. She.

Look . . . at . . . me. . . .

I shift from one foot to the other, trying to get a good look at him. When I finally do, I look away. His eyes were already on me, probably drawn by my nervous movement.

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

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

It's very intimidating to be photographed, but if I kneel down and chat with you, so you're looking down at me, it makes you feel less threatened.

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that.

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

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.

I've been told I'm really bad at flirting.

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.

When humans look at each other and look long enough into their eyes, some people are totally uncomfortable with that. I am not.

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.

the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.

Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

Eye contact is a method utilised by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. Many women find it difficult to look a man directly in the eyes, not because of shyness, but because a woman's eyes are not located in her chest.