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Quotes About Smile

THE PARENTS HAD been close in college but hadn't gotten together as a group since then. Until they picked this season for their offensively long reunion. One had been heard to say: "Our last hurrah." It sounded like bad acting in a stupid play. Another one non-joked, "After this, we'll see each other next at someone's funeral." None of them cracked a smile.
~ Lydia Millet
clear air and smiled, his perfect face softening as he
~ Lynda La Plante
She felt sleep creeping up on her like a relentless tide. She tried to summon up a craving for German chocolates. Or New York traffic. Late-night television. Nope. What she really needed was currently scratching her back with the most careful of scratches, humming an off-key melody under his breath. Jessica smiled.
~ Lynn Kurland
What?" Richard demanded. John merely shook his head and smiled. "She rides very well." "What?" Richard turned to see his horse's rump now far in the distance. "Damn that woman!
~ Lynn Kurland
Are you brothers or something then?" Russell exchanged a glance with Francis and they both smiled faintly, before the fair-haired man took her arm to urge her away from the bed. "Or something," Russell
~ Lynsay Sands
Medea smiled to herself and felt reassured. Despite being so much more crowded and having so much more hustle and bustle, the world still functioned in its old way, the way she understood, with small miracles happening, people coming together and parting, and all of it forming a wonderful pattern.
~ Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Voltei-me; era um antigo companheiro, oficial de marinha, jovial, um pouco despejado de maneiras. Ele sorriu maliciosamente, e disse-me: - Seu maganão! Recordações do passado, hem? - Viva o passado!
~ Machado de Assis
Now the red eyes and the light above seemed to bore into Charles, and again the pupils fo the little boy's eyes contracted. When the final point of black was lost in blue he turned away from the red eyes, looked at Meg, and smiled sweetly, but the smile was not Charles Wallaces smile.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Jesus, half of Dublin seems to be from that one-horse town. Clio as well. Well, it sure breeds fine-looking women.' His arms tightened a little around her. Kit was about to pull away when she saw Stevie Sullivan looking at her over Frankie's shoulder. She didn't pull away, instead she smiled up at Kevin. 'Any tighter and I'll put my knee up with a sudden jerk,' she said, still smiling sweetly.
~ Maeve Binchy
That was the thing about people her age, they were programmed to work and smile and they just go on with it.
~ Maeve Binchy
Emotion goes inside-out. Emotional contagion, though, suggests that the opposite is also true. If I can make you smile, I can make you happy. If I can make you frown, I can make you sad. Emotion, in this sense, goes outside-in.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Mimicry, they argue, is also one of the means by which we infect each other with our emotions. In other words, if I smile and you see me and smile in response—even a microsmile that takes no more than several milliseconds—it's not just you imitating or empathizing with me. It may also be a way that I can pass on my happiness to you.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
At times sun may burn bloody coppery on your skin…But have that charm and smile on your chinIt's the tolerance and inner strength of your soul that winsIn this wheel of life, with time that spins
~ Dr Chitra Navada
A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Increase your happiness and the joy you experience every day through humour and laughter.
~ Mensah Oteh
Laughter is an essential ingredient of a happy life.
~ Mensah Oteh
A smile is much lighter to carry than a frown!
~ Stephen Richards
Thousands of reason are too less to make me sad but a single reason is enough to make me smile.
~ Raaz Ojha
Kill them with success, and bury them with a smile
~ Keisha Keenleyside
Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.
~ Frederick Lenz
I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people's lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women's faces while they are saying they regret the harm they have done. It is the smile of nature quietly and proudly asserting its natural right to kill.
~ Anais Nin
I have run away with a part of my treasures, my memories, my obsession, with preserving, portraying, recording. All of us may die, but in these pages we will continue to smile, talk, make love.
~ Anais Nin
Could she love such an unstormy sky as his eyes, such a downy and untarnished skin, such a candid smile?
~ Anais Nin
Tityrus smiled.
~ Andre Gide