Faces Quotes

In seventh grade, false feelings and false faces are the rule.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

I gazed into the mirror... There, staring at me, was the pallid, flabby-mouthed face of a crook

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.

Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

You should tell her how nice her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't.

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate.

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.

Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.

Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

He brushed my tears from my face. "How did I find you?

I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.

Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

Everyone faces difficulties; not everyone looks for the opportunities in every difficulty.

My work may feature brown faces but it could be anybody's story.

If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue.

His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.

Features, the great soul's apparent seat.

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.

Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces

There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.

It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's...that's what makes us strong.

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

I've been an audience member for friends in plays that I don't enjoy and I have to lie to their faces. It's just part of that lifestyle unfortunately, especially in New York.

I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.

I don't know if I would go so far to say that I would punch someone in the face, but I would definitely stand up for my lady. But sometimes it's more attractive to use your words than your fists.

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.