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Quotes About Face

My sister actually has a "thinking face." It makes people wait before speaking to her. Dad says my thinking face makes it look like I want to go to the loo.
~ Jojo Moyes
She had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across them like reflections on a still pond.
~ Jojo Moyes
A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience.
~ Jojo Moyes
Mmm.' She was thinking. My sister actually has a 'thinking face'. It makes people wait before speaking to her. Dad says my thinking face makes it look like I want to go to the loo.
~ Jojo Moyes
Sak? - tavyje n?ra gyvyb?s ir jokio jud?sio. O mano siela ?m? šokti, mano širdis atgijo, ži?r?dama ? tavo veid?, gyvyb?s piln?, ir tavo lengvus judesius. Kadaise menininko rankos tavyje pasl?p? gyvyb?- judes? ir siel? - ir ji staiga atgijo ir ?m? šokti.
~ Jonas Mekas
Finally... On other earths, on other universes, I learned that evil itself was a universal constant... And that it had a face, and that it had a name.
~ Jonathan Hickman
His face was uniquely slapable - a nun would have ached to punch him - while his backside cried out to heaven for a well-placed kick.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Take his appearance. There was something about it that acted as a trigger to one's worst instincts. His face was uniquely slappable - a nun would have ached to punch him - while his backside cried out to heaven for a well-placed kick.
~ Jonathan Stroud
You speak with eerie calm, but your face promises violence. I feel a little frightened.
~ Jonathan Stroud
He had a very slender face, with a long nose and a dark mop of unruly hair.
~ Jonathan Stroud
We should all just face reality and stop taking our meals together.
~ Jonathan Tropper
Look for the hand that points the way, And take the path where children play. Then where the face with breath that sighs Bends to admire its gleaming eyes, You way is marked by lines of light That mean escape from endless night.
~ Emily Rodda
The sheet was warm and moving. Vere held it in a continuation of the nightmare, until he saw a small red face amidst the folds. The tiny mouth was open to let forth surprisingly strident shrieks.
~ Emma Drummond
I got into a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into corners very well."
~ Emo Philips
Pe cel?lalt taler al balanÈ›ei st? Parisul. Poate pentru c? n-are niciodat? sfârÈ™it. ?i, în plus, e minunat; el face fa?? la tot, tuturor temeiurilor g?site de om pentru a fi nefericit... De ce eram, Doamne, disperat la Paris? Nici c? puteam fi mai idiot." - Enrique Vila-Matas, "Parisul nu are sfârÈ™it
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
much time. * * * Racing around the outside of the square in his Afghan robes, face smeared with dirt and blood, he looked little different from many of the other men
~ Eric Meyer
task of the hero, which is to "awaken those sleeping images that can and must come forth from the night, in order to give the world a better face," is far indeed from "masturbation.
~ Erich Neumann
He would not be strong enough to gaze directly upon the petrifying face of the uroboros, so he raises its image to consciousness and kills it "by reflection.
~ Erich Neumann
ThunderClan is doomed!" "There will be a cat who burns like fire!" "Trust no one, not even your Clanmates. Too many hearts are fickle." "Beware the striped face and snapping teeth!
~ Erin Hunter
I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
~ beckett bernard ii
Almost through force of habit, she found her lips saying the words she had so often said before: "Let's not spoil it . . . You will write to me, my dear, my dear . . ." His face was impassive. "I never write," he said.
~ Bel Kaufman
The bouncer scrutinized my face. "Do I know you?" he asked. No, I thought, but you might remember me from such Saturday-night hits as "Would you please put that punter down I'd like to arrest him," "You can stop kicking him now, the ambulance has arrived," and the classic "If you don't back off right now I'm going to nick you as well.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
She had a narrow face which could fall into an expression of belligerent suspicion of such power that her teachers said they could feel it even when they were hiding in the staff room. It was her stubbornness, coupled with this expression – and routine everyday low grade racism – that kept her constantly on the verge of a school suspension.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Seawoll's people would provide containment in case things went pear-shaped, while Dr Walid stood by with a mobile trauma team to help any poor bastard who had the bad luck to have their face fall off.
~ Ben Aaronovitch