#face

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. ↗

— Duane Michals

#face #great #i #i think #know

So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age — the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night — are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#introduction #preface #age

Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better. ↗

— Michael Milken

#array #better #cancer #cures #dedicated

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. ↗

— Yuri Milner

#facebook

Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be. ↗

— Yuri Milner

#how #know #successful #would

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#beautiful #camera #composition #face #i

I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face. ↗

— Gretchen Mol

#did #everybody #explicit #face #feels

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

#clean #cut #different #different times #ends

He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. ↗

— Clement Clarke Moore

#broad #face #had #jelly #laughed

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy. ↗

— Alison Moyet

#any #attraction #being #beyond #candy