#face

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring. ↗

— Burl Ives

#birds #black #blew #center #cool

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. ↗

— James Thurber

#face #fall #far #flat #lean

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. ↗

— James Thurber

#developed #face #hardening #i #me

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#community #cultures #face #know #painting

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#deserving #draft #employing #exposing #expression

It's important to face down your demons. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#down #face #important #your

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs. ↗

— Joan Jett

#better #face #good #good songs #i

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#danger #face #laugh #linux #philosophy

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#big #earth #face #i #london

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#alone #anyway #because #being #being alone