Quotes About Face

the expression on her face, which was swept by the excitement of what she saw ... was as luminous and tremulous under it as water in sunlight when it is ruffled by a gust of wind.

The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from their grave towards what is coming next.

No, but one might mend — —" Anna stopped, feeling that under some circumstances even the mending of drains might be impious. She had heard so much about piety and Providence within the last two hours that she was confused, and was no longer clear as to the exact limit of conduct beyond which a flying in the face of Providence might be said to begin.

I believe there is an integrity to my intolerance...Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?

Deep in the greenwood of my heart Is my abiding-place: I cloak my soul at feast and mart; I mask my face. Outlawed, but not alone, for Truth Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

For nothing could explain away the livid terror that had dropped over his face while he stood there sniffing the air. And nothing — no amount of blazing fire, or chatting on ordinary subjects — could make that camp exactly as it had been before. The shadow of an unknown horror, naked if unguessed, that had flashed for an instant in the face and gestures of the guide, had also communicated itself, vaguely and therefore more potently, to his companion.

You have a face that suits a woman For her soul's screen-- The sort of beauty that's called human In hell, Faustine.

She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death.

My being ineligible makes you all the more eligible. No worries. Happy to help. Also you'll notice this face resembles the drawings on the posters that tell you to report anything you think looks suspicious. Tell the police if you see anyone who looks like me, because my face is of urgent matter to your nation. Not at all. No problem. Glad to be of service.

It's on my head, Elisabeth says. That's where it grows. And my face is also attached to my head.

Hello Mr. Gluck, she'll say if he does. Sorry I'm late. I was having my face measured and rejected for being the wrong specification.

I have the face of a man who drinks blood, of a woman of guile and deception; of an arrogant beggar who doesn't owe you a thing.

There's such joy and fearless in that face, isn't there? It's like the look you see on a child's face before the age of reason sets in.

a patrician face vaguely reminiscent of one of the better-fed Roman emperors

The Orphic Machine is the poem: A severed head with face turned away that sings.

Medusa… the sight of her face turned people into stone. [Here she is] perhaps a symbol of the ultimate sin, despair, which would petrify Dante and so trap him in Hell for ever.

A couple of your guests saw a fireball come out the sky, and the place went up. Heat lightning is what will go in the report. A freak of nature." I'd be sure to tell Drake he was being listed as a freak of nature. I wanted to watch his face when I said it. - Emilio Salas, Janet Begay

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

I don't ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close them.

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

I don't have a poker face at all - I have a very, very expressional face, and I have no control over that.

I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside.

I'm neither here nor there about this Lady Gaga, but she's clearly very passionate about her poker face.

Nothing has prepared me better for working with Marvel than playing tabletop games with my friends. It definitely taught me how to have a good poker face. You have to hide your hand - and sometimes lie.