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Quotes About Face

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.
~ Simon Cowell
I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
~ William Shakespeare
There is this really tight relationship between horror and shame. And shame is in all of my books as the biggest monster. And horror is all about creating a metaphor for something you can't face That connection is super powerful for me.
~ Leigh Bardugo
My stepmother was no beauty. She was round and squat with a face not unlike a potato that had been scrubbed.
~ Sally Gardner
Here closed in death th' attentive eyesThat saw the manners in the face.
~ Samuel Johnson
The yellow eyes had fallen from the tired star. Lorq's face erupted about the scar at some antic from the Mouse that Katin had missed. Rage, Katin pondered. Rage. Yes, he is laughing. But how is anyone supposed to distinguish between laughter and rage in that face? But the others were laughing too. Yet some way, somehow, we do.
~ Samuel R. Delany
The figure of the passing-away world, 1 Cor. vii. 31. is like an old man's face, full of wrinkles, and foul with weeping: we are waiting when Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, and shall come and wipe the old man's face.
~ Samuel Rutherford
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
~ Sandra Lee
and all the beauty and the blasphemy. Petals, petals, scattering from the stands where only vestals were allowed to sit, having tended the flame for all of us. Here, I knew, was the empire of my soul showing on my face as I turned to you.
~ Sarah Arvio
I think mascara is creepy," Liam volunteered. "Like lots of spider legs on a girl's eye. Really freaky part is if she starts to cry, and the spider legs dissolve and walk down her cheeks." ... "Girls wear makeup to feel stronger. It's armor for your face. You guys are stuck with the faces you have, which, in your cases, is unfortunate.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.
~ Angela Carter
Because of Christ, even our catastrophes have purpose. God is preparing our character for the time when we will see Him face to face.
~ Kenneth Boa
Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.
~ George Soros
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
~ Jean Baudrillard
No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.
~ Anna Akhmatova
I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.
~ Neko Case
We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.
~ Erskine Bowles
I had the face of pleasure, and yet I had no knowledge of pleasure. There was no mistaking that face.
~ Marguerite Duras
If you think about a human face, it can be something you don't want to look at,so sad or so hard or so kind. It can be something you want to hide, because it pretty well shows where you've been and what you can expect. And anybody at all can see it, but you can''t. It just floats out there in front of you. It might as well be your soul, for all you can do to protect it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
If we can divinely fed with a morsel and divinely blessed with a touch, then the terrible pleasure we find in a particular face can certainly instruct us in the nature of the very grandest love.
~ Marilynne Robinson
If you think about a human face, it can be something you don't want to look at, so sad or so hard or so kind. It can be something you want to hide, because it pretty well shows where you've been and what you can expect. And anybody at all can see it, but you can't. It just floats there in front of you. It might as well be your soul, for all you can do to protect it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Out of the montage of accusations and sly traps written in their collective expressions, one face stood out clearly from all the rest. What was the remark the man had made? Oh, yes, he remembered it now. "I am completely impartial, Dr. Billings," the man had said. "I merely see to it that you teachers say nothing which might threaten our freedom of speech!
~ Mark Clifton