Faces Quotes - Page 82

I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.

I was always the first one to break. I'll admit it. I couldn't keep a straight face.

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear.

Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.

Most libels, and I have taken about 30 actions, take place at election time. It has not stuck because I am prepared to go before a court, stand in the witness box and face the most aggressive of lawyers who can cross-examine me on my personal history.

I'm the oldest pretty face around.

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

Bowie has an unusual face. He's neither a man nor a woman. There's this aura of fantasy that surrounds him. He has flair.

User interface is customer service for the computer.

Send a drop of kindness, and see a happy face.

I have learned that most of us must face some form of challenge in our lives. But without hardship, we wouldn’t learn and grow.

The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.

the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.

Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.

How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.