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Quotes About Faces

The men sometimes do a better job of concealing their hate than the women. With the feminists, you can see it in their faces.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.
~ Bob Dylan
Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.
~ Rebecca West
What can you answer? Now be careful, don't arouse my spite, Or with my slipper I'll take you napping, faces slappingLeft and right.
~ Aristophanes, Lysistrata
Stories are made about girls like you. The wild ones, those rare faces that smile in the midst of chaos.
~ Nikki Rowe
There is no nature to things,' you wrote in the book. 'There are no faces except masks held tight against the pitching chaos behind them.
~ Thomas Ligotti
In the West Fourth Street station, Vera was nowhere in sight, and I had an anxious, fizzy feeling in my stomach while I waited for the train. But I could feel the energy of the city in the vibrations coming off the tracks, and the diversity of the faces I saw around me made me feel so alive, so much a part of something kinetic, I swore I could taste it like metallic electricity on my tongue.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
I believe we have a double in every country. There's something about that that is probably a commonness that we don't make note of. That maybe there's only a cast for so many faces, and we live everywhere.
~ Richie Havens
The Nakba. Or the Catastrophe. Or the Hejira. Also known as the Exodus, the Rape, the Cataclysm, the Forcing, the Night We Blackened Our Faces and Left.
~ Colum McCann
Everywhere hung portraits of blacks, strange family groups where the faces watched gravely from out of their paper past. Hanging in the dark like galleries of condemned.
~ Cormac McCarthy
and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago—they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it
~ Cornelia Funke
Oh, er vermisste sein gemasertes Gesicht und seine heisere Stimme. Er vermisste ihn ganz besonders unter all diesen weichhäutigen weißen Gesichtern.
~ Cornelia Funke
Among the hardest problems an art theory faces are questions about how to settle art's meaning through interpretation
~ Cynthia Freeland
I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces? Some preachers will say, well, that is superstitious "claptrap." My answer is this: Preacher, go to your Bible and read Luke 8: 26-33. Stonehill
~ Charles Portis
I'll go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?
~ Charles Portis
I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?
~ Charles Portis
I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?
~ Charles Portis
Time—the lizard in the sunlight. It doesn't move, but its eyes are wide open. They love to gaze into our faces and hearken to our discourse. It's because the very first men were lizards. If you don't believe me, go grab one by the tail and see it come right off.
~ Charles Simic
The populace was mesmerized primarily because real life was suddenly as exciting as the movies. And all those famous faces! Big-name movie stars assuring the Committee they were four-square for the USA, and praising the Committee for the work they were doing, was a triumph for the Committee, and it went to their heads, eventually.
~ Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.
~ Halle Berry
In our own time, when child abduction has become epidemic and even our milk cartons are imprinted with the faces of the missing, that truth has been confirmed with dismaying regularity.
~ Harold Schechter
Even if step three didn't work (which it does), just applying steps one and two must improve your memory for names and faces, because you've done what most people don't do—you've paid attention; you've listened and looked.
~ Harry Lorayne
In het ene landschap was ik het vorige vergeten, zoals je op straat onafgebroken gezichten ziet, die je onafgebroken vergeet
~ Harry Mulisch