Quotes About Face

The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here. --from The Moon and the Yew Tree, written 22 October 1961

His face, with its exaggerated shadows and planes of light, looked alien and pained, like a refugee's.

The tropical, stale heat the sidewalks had been sucking up all day hit me in the face like a last insult.

The face of Eisenhower beamed up at me, bald and blank as the face of a foetus in a bottle.

I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain

It will be dark, And the shine of these small things sweeter than the face of Ishtar.

No place of grace for those who avoid the face No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the voice

This form, this face, this life living to live in a world of time beyond me; let me resign my life for this life, my speech for that unspoken, the awakened, lips parted, the hope, the new ships.

If the devil's work out here among the stars has a face, it is the handsome, narrow-chinned visage of Keeta Januari, leader of the Rationalists. And if God ever wanted someone dead, she is that person.

nose and a straight brow

Romulan dressed his face in its most charming and unpredictable smile, and as the woman rode close enough to see him fully, he turned it on her.

The eyes themselves drifted open, closed, open, and the face, turned slowly to Valentius, smiled at him. It was a smile of marvelous sweetness, like a child's, trusting and happy and at peace, for Romulan was clearly not yet fully aware. The father received the smile with a deep personal sadness, already assured it was not for him.

A dream came by. The dream had the actor's face and his voice, but he did not speak to her and his eyes did not answer hers.

He studied Cyrion's vacant face, its hateful glamour like a mask, the searching, hopeless eyes.

His eyes on her across the distance had seen only symbols, not a face or frame.

Blood and roses, the sunlight came in through the panes, touching her face with a color it did not have.

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

Oh, my goodness, Lord Dryden. You should have seen your face when you said the word work. It's not counted among the deadly sins, you know.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die.

I must have the footprint of fresh disaster on my face. They listen to my troubles like they're a couple of capos and I'm talking murder.

The only other route was up the stairs. But at the bottom of the main staircase, where perhaps she had been for some time, sat Melissa Heart. She was wearing her angry face.

eyeing my face in that same accusatory way I've seen my entire life. As if I had begged in vitro for a birthmark, this personal affront to his sanitized, temperature-controlled world.

The tears would choke you, sweet, in vain; My soul with victory is fed, Because I see your face again— No jewels, but the lips are red.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.