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Quotes About Face

there was something intimidating about Harrison. His face in repose looked to me like it was closer to a scowl than to any other expression. It was immediately clear that he was no people pleaser; this was more of a people unsettler.
~ Carrie Fisher
Suzanne sat in Roger's chair, staring at the reflection of her dread morning face. Roger browsed his cassette rack. "Do you want calming or stimulating?" he asked her. Suzanne mulled it over for a few moments. It was a question she had asked herself about men.
~ Carrie Fisher
You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?" "That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?
~ Cassandra Clare
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
~ George Gordon Byron
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
~ George H. Mead
At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.
~ George Orwell
Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?" Her broad homely face turned red. "Yes." "Oh, good," Jaime said. "I only rescue maidens.
~ George R.R. Martin
I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding her true face from my gaze. "Pray for me, if you like," he told his cousin. "I forgotten all the words.
~ George R.R. Martin
There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.
~ George R.R. Martin
on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.
~ George R.R. Martin
Purple with rage, the king lashed out, a vicious backhand blow to the side of the head. She stumbled against the table and fell hard, yet Cersei Lannister did not cry out. Her slender fingers brushed her cheek, where the pale smooth skin was already reddening. On the morrow the bruise would cover half her face. "I shall wear this as a badge of honor," she announced. "Wear it in silence, or I'll honor you again," Robert vowed.
~ George R.R. Martin
Some men had faces that cried out for a beard. Ser Clayton's face cried out for an axe between the eyes.
~ George R.R. Martin
Seasoned killers all, thought Selmy, but it is one thing to face a foe in the pit when his coming is heralded by horns and drums and another to find a hidden killer before he can strike.
~ George R.R. Martin
At least you look at my face. I'll give you that, you little she-wolf. How do you like it?" "I don't. It's all burned and ugly.
~ George R.R. Martin
She has never seen a dwarf before, he realized, much less a dwarf without a nose. He made a face, and stuck his tongue out, and the girl began to cry. 'What did you do to her?' Duck asked. 'I blew her a kiss. All girls cry when I kiss them.
~ George R.R. Martin
Jackie Brown at twenty-six, with no expression on his face, said that he could get some guns.
~ George V. Higgins
The change in the girl's face was more subtle, almost invisible; it was not joy, there was no sparkle, but something like a serene contentment. It was as though she had ripened, as though there were a growing plenitude in her, never there before.
~ Georges Simenon
We're a bit like criminal lawyers. We're the public face of things, but it's the civil lawyers who do the serious work, in the shadows.
~ Georges Simenon
Captain Creech's face, bobbing between Larry's and Donald's, had achieved an extraordinary mauve colour, rather like the bloom of a plum.
~ Gerald Durrell
It's not wrinkles. I just have too much skin for the size of my face.
~ Barbara Colson
But Shelley had a hyperthyroid face.
~ John C. Squire
(Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
Her face looks as if it had worn out two bodies.
~ New England saying
Praise the wise man behind his back, but a woman to her face.
~ Welch Proverb