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Quotes About Smile

She looked down at Miles, though, and her lips softened with a helpless smile. Miles grinned back like a loon; Richars's blackest glare in his direction slid off him as though deflected by a force field.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
He dropped them with an impressive thump upon one of the little tables and favored both new pupils with a deliberately sinister smile. If this was to be anything like training young soldiers, young horses, or young hawks, the key was to take the initiative from the first moment, and keep it thereafter. He could be as hollow as a drum, so long as he was as loud.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
She shoots. He restrained his smile as he turned back to Lance and nodded in her direction. I needed some sort of defense. Lance wasn't amused. He wiped his hand over his face and muttered something about damn stubborn women. Braden completely agreed with him.
~ Lora Leigh
Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat.
~ Lorrie Moore
She tried to smile warmly but wondered if she looked fakey, something Ariel sometimes accused her of. Ariel had said. It's like you're trying to be happy out of a book. Millie owned several books about trying to be happy.
~ Lorrie Moore
A smile, a weird one, nestled in his mouth like an egg.
~ Lorrie Moore
Jane gave Heffie an anxious look. It said Please forgive me. It also said What is your problem? and Have a nice day Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat
~ Lorrie Moore
It was said that there was a smile at the corners of his lips from the moment of his birth, and from early boyhood he was a specialist in in appropriate interjections.
~ Louis de Bernieres
When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel to see her smile and wave at me. You can have your sunsets and waterfalls. If a piano were to suddenly fall on my head, that's the image I'd want forever engraved in my mind. —Alton Richard
~ Louis Sachar
was the smile on the face of Gary Boone. He was in the seventh grade at Floyd Hicks
~ Louis Sachar
La risata è pronta quando il cuore è felice.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Genius. Don't you wish you could give it to me, Laurie? And she slyly smiled in his disappointed face.
~ Louisa May Alcott
the smile vanished, and presently a tear lay shining on the window ledge. Beth whisked it off, and
~ Louisa May Alcott
A smile of remembrance of lost times.
~ Louise Erdrich
Walker grinned. 'Ah,' said Jesus. 'There it is. Signs of your holiness.' 'I just smiled. You made a dumb joke, and I smiled.' 'And that isn't holy?
~ Ron Koertge
And the Dean smiled sheepishly and tried to look less like a wolf. It was a favorite expression of his when addressing youth.
~ Ronald Firbank
Y ella se despidió de todos metida en su cama eterna-cama mundo, en su velero del dolor, con la sonrisa desencajada y las manos resplandecientes de sortijas.
~ Rosa Montero
Ho notato questo negli esseri umani; l'essere a conoscenza di un segreto li fa sorridere. E' il sorriso del potere.
~ Rose Tremain
Special Assistant Agent in Charge Lang. He nearly smiled at the title she knew she'd botched again. Just 'Mr Lang' is fine.
~ Roxanne St. Claire
Our time is short. I shouldn't have believed that this morning; but now things are different. Binkie, where was Moses when the light went out?' Binkie smiled from ear to ear, as a well-bred terrier should, but made no suggestion.
~ Rudyard Kipling
When I was a child grown-ups often told me to smile, which I found presumptuous of them. People still tell me that sometimes, mostly idiots at parties.
~ Russell Hoban
The note was written on a ridiculously cheerful letterhead, and she smiled in spite of herself. The logo, a teddy bear holding a smiley-face balloon, suited Dr. Melanie to a tee.
~ Ruth Ozeki
I choose one thing: always to have the laughter on my side.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
No puedo evitar sonreírme cuando pienso la habilidad con la que sé pronunciar su nombre, ese nombre, en un momento decisivo.
~ Soren Kierkegaard