Quotes About Face

a passing face together with his grief turned you into a weeping Madonna...

I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...

New opportunities abound if we but have the courage to face them.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

She blinked, and considered and slicked her whiskers against her face in contemplation.

Mallory's face went briefly vague, as those of Exalts could do when they consulted their internal worlds.

You know, on Earth, the cards had only four suits and each suit has only four face cards. But there are six important directions here in space.

Patty watches silently, pale eyes alert as they shift form Elspeth's face to mine and back again.

There had been times in the last decade and a half when Vincent had been convinced he'd never exactly remember that face. And there had been times when he'd been just as convinced had never get it out of his head. That he could feel Michelangelo standing beside him, glowering as he was glowering now.

Familiar ice stiffened Garrett's spine, and she let it freeze her professional smile on her face.

He frowned at her now, studying her face-the sharp jaw and small nose, the high forehead over deep-set eyes, the architecture of pride and knowledge and competence that the sharpness of grief could not diminish.

He raised his hands and froze there, still as an oil painting, poised like a man shielding his face from divine light.

Poetry, he realized, in watching Will's face. A furious brightness sparked in Kit's breast, equal parts pride and fury. Even now, he comes back with poetry.

Kit turned to fix Ben with a glare, but the wry bemusement on the young poet's face turned a searing glance into a sideways shrug. One that made Ben cough again, and then burst out laughing, both hands over his face.

The necromancer's eyebrows were very expressive, especially when the rest of the face was pretending blandness. It was a lovely face, oval and more angelic than Perceval's own.

Curled tight as a caterpillar, his fingers laced through the bridle as if the touch of iron could ease his agony, he still flinched when the light struck his face.

Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.

Have you ever seen a bird without its beak? Horrible, just tiny dead eyes and a hole in its face.

Do you think 'Duke' is a good name?' she asked. His face blanked for a second before it cleared. He glanced at the dog in consideration. 'I don't think so. He would outrank me.

He grinned, though his face was strained. "That's it, love. Use me to make yerself feel good.

The work Aquinas did in the next sixteen years changed the face of Western Christianity and philosophy.

There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist.

Those fine september nights, when the dew dropped On my face and I licked it to get drunk.

She had a nose that looked like an afterthought, not moulded into her face, but stuck on much as a child would model a face; and she was so thin it seemed her zeal for conversion had consumed her flesh