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Quotes About Brow

A Scottish, mopping his brow with his kilt was accused of indecent exposure!
~ Fabrice
nonchalantly, against her damp brow.
~ Fern Michaels
This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.
~ Frederick Leboyer
The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature.
~ Michael Chabon
Scaling little ladders with glue pots and pails of lysol. I crawl like an ant in mourning over the weedy acres of your brow to mend the immense skull-plates and clear the bald, white tumuli of your eyes. A blue sky out of Oresteia....
~ Sylvia Plath
nose and a straight brow
~ Tami Hoag
The horse was called Diamond because of the marking on her brow, an orphaned splash of white beneath the swishing mask of her long forelock;
~ Justin Cronin
I see with sympathy The swollen veins on his brow, showing How exhausting it is to be evil.
~ brecht bertolt ii
Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics. But there is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing fable. If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could not read the simplest peasant's face in its profounder and more subtle meanings, how may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of the Sperm Whale's brow? I but put that brow before you. Read it if you can.
~ Herman Melville
The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers.
~ Herman Melville
Death had given back part of her beauty, for her brow and cheeks had recovered some of their flowing lines.
~ Bram Stoker
My brow still burns from the kiss of the queen; I have dreamed in the grotto where the siren swims . . .
~ Gerard de Nerval
Soon his steady, ivory stride was heard, as to and fro he paced his old rounds, upon planks so familiar to his tread, that they were all over dented like geological sones, with the peculiar mark of his walk. Did you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow; there also, you would see still stranger footprints--the footprints of his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought.
~ Herman Melville
Tehol wiped sweat from his brow. 'Give me some of that hen tea, will you?' 'With or without?' 'With or without what?' 'Feathers.' 'That depends. Are they clean feathers?' 'They are now,' Bugg replied. 'All right, then, since I can't think of anything more absurd. With.' Bugg reached for a clay cup. 'I knew I could count on you, Master.
~ Steven Erikson
The sixth chakra, also called the Ajna chakra, is located between the eyebrows.
~ Steven Sloman
At least I know the truth, " I gritted back. "I'm not the one who's being lied to." His brow furrowed, and I spat the truth at him.
~ Julie Kagawa, Soldier
In America I have seen the freest and best educated of men in circumstances the happiest to be found in the world, yet it seemed to me that a cloud habitually hung on their brow, and they seemed serious and almost sad even in their pleasures.
~ Carl Elliott
Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.
~ Victor Hugo
Pop music will never be low brow.
~ Lady Gaga
Puzzlement drew a crease in his brow, like he was divining a mystery. Like she was his mystery.
~ Laini Taylor
I love those shorts." A crinkled formed between her brows. "They're old and ratty."... "I like them, but if you don't, I'd be happy to take them off for you." He cocked one brow ....
~ Cat Johnson
We must admit that he had eyes like drenched violets, so large that the water seemed to have brimmed in them and widened them; and a brow like the swelling of a marble dome pressed between the two blank medallions which were his temples.
~ Virginia Woolf
A light wind passed his brow, fanning softly his fair uncombed hair and stirring silver points of anxiety in his eyes.
~ James Joyce
The Dusk is dark and glorious A star upon her brow; With sunset blushes in her cheeks, She beckons now.
~ Robert Loveman, c. 1901