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Quotes About Smiling

Sono l'unica persona al mondo ad essere convinta che la causa del numero crescente di fatti di cronaca in cui persone all'apparenza assolutamente normali cominciano a sparare con pistole automatiche nei centri commerciali, nelle agenzie di assicurazione, nelle cliniche private e nei McDonald's dipende anche dal fatto che posti del genere sono ben noti vivai di propagazione del Sorriso Professionale?
~ David Foster Wallace
An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
~ William Shakespeare
She sat like patience on a monument smiling at grief.
~ William Shakespeare
Whoa, Rebecca," Talia said smiling even wider, "Walking on the wild side, are we?" Raisa seemed to think the situation needed more explaining. "He - uh - I'm tutoring him." "She is," Han said solemnly. "She's very good. I'm learning a lot." Pearlie snickered. "What's she teaching you?" "Well," Han said, "we're jumping around a lot.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
La persona della quale parlerò e così sciocca che, a volte, per strada, sorridere gli altri. Nessuno le ricambia il sorriso neppure la vedono.
~ Clarice Lispector
If he were to counsel Anna, it would be to patience. The dowager Katherine won the admiration of all, when she sat smiling by the king she supposed her husband, through hours of court ceremonies, hours which stretched into years. Never was she seen with tears on her cheeks, or an angry frown. 'Yes,' Bess says, 'Katherine was a great pattern for womanhood. She died alone and friendless, did she not?
~ Hilary Mantel
The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.
~ Hiro Mashima
He shakes his head, still smiling. "No. It's funny how you get under his skin." --- "Like a splinter?" I say. --- "Of iron. No one else bothers him quite the way that you do.
~ Holly Black
I'm still your father.'' ''You're my father's murderer,'' I blurt out. ''I can be both,'' Madoc says, smiling, showing those teeth.
~ Holly Black
One of the masked women imitates the sounds she hears and the ubiquitous tune, as she sways and runs her hand through her hair. A rutting mare, a slender block of ice, warm for others but not for herself, she seems to be split in two: fire from the waist down, straight lines above. Growing more sensual by the minute, more labile and smiling, her mask redder, flame is her nest, the flash of her eyes stony gray.
~ Unknown
Unfortunately her portrait will cure no one of the addiction to loving sweetly smiling angels with dreamy looks, innocent faces, and a strong-box for a heart.
~ Unknown
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.
~ Honore de Balzac
Calm and smiling faces and placid brows covered sordid interests, expressions of friendship were a lie, and more than one man was less distrustful of his enemies than of his friends.
~ Honore de Balzac
To Cam surprise, she was smiling up at him steadily, her eyes midnight. His expression turned quizzical. "What's so amus­ing?" Amelia toyed with a button on his coat. "I was just thinking . . . tonight those two old hens will probably go to their beds, cold and alone." An impish grin curved her lips. "Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.
~ Lisa Kleypas
But those pictures and those moments are posed and smiling. They're not as real as this.
~ Jerry Spinelli
If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
~ Quentin Crisp
but unable to help himself, he said sulkily, "It's the smiling
~ Peter David
She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die.
~ Philip Pullman
The dreamy guy at this Starbucks wasn't working the counter. Instead he was working a broom behind it, smiling as he swept. At first I didn't get the smile, but then I realized he was listening to the radio, to Norah Jones sliding her voice around he notes. In his own way, he was dancing alone.
~ David Levithan
Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent, said Dusty. But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person. Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal?
~ Dean Koontz
The sky was black and spitting rain on my smiling face.
~ Yann Martel
The most callous of her guests admired her as young Rome applauded some gladiator who could die smiling.
~ Honore de Balzac
And, judging from Dame Jessamine's serene and smiling face, he had succeeded in removing completely the terrible impression produced by her husband's parting words, and in restoring to what she was pleased to call her mind its normal condition, namely that of a kettle that contains just enough water to simmer comfortably over a low fire.
~ Unknown
I'm a very outgoing person. I'm always happy, I'm one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they'd say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.
~ Corbin Bleu