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Quotes About Face

She protested she'd rather freeze than wear the coat Lily had bought her. It was too big and it had a fur collar. 'It sounds rather glamorous,' he said. 'That's as maybe,' she retorted. 'It's too much trouble. You have to paint your face if you wear a fur. It draws attention.
~ Beryl Bainbridge
If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.
~ Betty Dravis
The professor was looking at Theodosia; he knew with resigned amusement that he was about to become the owner of the little dog. She wasn't going to ask, but the expression on her face was eloquent.
~ Betty Neels
For the Lord is righteous, he loves justice; upright men will see his face.
~ bible quotes ii
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
~ Bill Bryson
And what's this about "swimming with dolphins"? I pulled a face. 'Where would you find a dolphin anyway?' 'We'll find one. No problem. The real problem is I can't swim. That's one of the reasons I need a helper'. 'You don't need a helper'. I mumbled it loud enough for him to hear. 'You need a psychiatrist'.
~ Bill Condon
Can one ever experience pleasure that is not attached to an object? Pure pleasure? [...] Well, one can say, a piece of music gave you pleasure. or seeing a handsome face, or smelling something delicious. But can pleasure be independent of any influences?
~ Bill Hayes
I was about to walk into TakeOver: New York, WrestleMania weekend, and that was my WrestleMania moment. It wasn't just about winning a title. It was about being the face of this brand, walking out from that curtain - that meant the world to me.
~ Tommaso Ciampa
If I could face anyone at any point at WrestleMania, it would be Mark Andrews.
~ Pete Dunne
The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
~ Maria Montessori
I always encourage women to let their individuality show by not covering up what they perceive as flaws. When I see a woman with the natural wrinkles of time on her face, I do not see the wrinkles at all, but when I see a woman trying to cover them up with too much foundation or concealer, all I see are her wrinkles.
~ Isabella Rossellini
But I must pay attention now, she thinks, because what other choice is there? Maybe when I die my soul will fly to meet God, but when that time comes I won't have the use of clever hands, nor the burden of an ugly face; hands and face will be planted like bulbs in the soil, while only the bloom of the spirit emerges elsewhere. So let my hands and my face make their way in the world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
~ Gregory Maguire
She was a sour-sass soul with a rubbery face.
~ Gregory Maguire
Well, I might be all or none of the things you say, said Boq staunchly, but you will learn that I am persistent. I will not let you say no to our friendship, Galinda. It means too much to me. Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate, said Elphaba. See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?
~ Gregory Maguire
It was one of those feminine faces whose every line has its own particular charm, and seems to possess a meaning, whose every movement seems to reveal or to conceal something.
~ Guy de Maupassant
The father was long and thin, with a red face framed in white whiskers, and looking like a living sandwich, a piece of ham carved like a face between two wads of hair.
~ Guy de Maupassant
For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Koltuktaki o ÅŸeyler, mükemmel mikroskobik benzerliÄŸin, kimliÄŸin en ince detay?na dek; Henry Wentworth Akeley'nin yüzü ve elleriydi.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
its face had taken on an expression which no one ever saw in a woodchuck before.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
By the time he got back to the table, Tad Crispin was sipping an iced tea too. Win made the introductions. Crispin was dressed in yellows, lots of yellows, kind of like the man with the yellow hat from the Curious George books. Everything was yellow. Even his golf shoes. Myron tried not to make a face. As
~ Harlan Coben
Chase Layton was too smart to snap-bite at that. He looked at Myron. An underling. Maybe there'd be a clue how to play on this plebeian's face. Myron kept up the neutral. He was getting better at it. Must be from hanging around Win so much.
~ Harlan Coben
If you've got a mask around your face sometimes you can't help it because you're just touching parts of your face.
~ Theresa Tam
I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fidel he was holding up after winning a tournament. Finally I saw him, only to recognize the saddest face I'd ever seen in Cuba.
~ Brin-Jonathan Butler
Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids.
~ Paul Hawken