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Quotes About Faces

Is it just this miserable fucking city, too many faces, making us crazy? Are we seeing some wholesale return of the dead?" "You'd prefer retail?
~ Thomas Pynchon
Listen, Hilarius said after awhile, have I seemed to you a good enough Freudian? Have I ever deviated seriously? You made faces now and then, said Oedipa, but that's minor.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Death is the one foe that everyone faces, the one foe that never loses.
~ Keith R.A. DeCandido
I couldn't imagine such men at rest, their faces smooth and innocent despite the wickedness of their hearts.
~ Kenneth Oppel
Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant it was like they were smiling all over.
~ Byron Nelson
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
~ C.G. Jung
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.
~ George Eliot
Two pairs of eyes blinked at her from angelic faces: Georgie's blue and Jack's amber. Hooligans, both of them.
~ Ilona Andrews
In the joy of the faces around him, Stevie gained a measurement of his own misery. The pit of melancholy was a bottomless one, and he was descending fast, falling further away from the good times. Such times often seemed tantalisingly within reach; he could see them, going on all around him. His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more.
~ Irvine Welsh
I was glad to see other faces and at the same time disappointed that the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people.
~ Ishmael Beah
I have lots of memories of Zeppelin. And I know the joy it gives fans when I tell them stories. I see their faces light up.
~ Jason Bonham
Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.
~ Karen Salmansohn
We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.
~ Hilaire Belloc
The worst of faces still is human.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
I like to have something that I can challenge common-sense notions about, challenge the apparent truths, and really look past the many faces of a thing to see what's behind it.
~ Bennett Miller
Baby Jane' is a tune, what a sax solo. And The Faces' 'Stay With Me' is amazing.
~ Edith Bowman
I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
~ Barbara Sukowa
The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.
~ Suzanne Collins
They appear in the doorway, holding tea and toast, their faces filled with concern. I open my mouth, planning to start off with some kind of joke, and burst into tears. So much for being strong.
~ Suzanne Collins
say. "No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces right in front of his." Well, there's so little opportunity for fun left in my life, I agree. We position ourselves
~ Suzanne Collins
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
~ Adam Lambert
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
~ Thomas Browne
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney
Men's minds are as variant as their faces," he wrote. "Liberality and charity . . . ought to govern in all disputes about matters of importance." On the other hand, "clamor and misrepresentation . . . only serve to foment the passions, without enlightening the understanding.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick