#face

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#brave #desperate #face #few #imagination

Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy? ↗

— John Mellencamp

#bad #bad guy #been #face #good

I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#across #camera #drama #drama school #even

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#better #decisions #environmental #faced #genome

... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#faces #humour #rage #anger

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#child #face #mother #nature #art

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#criticism #oscar-wilde #peril #read #surface

A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

Closing the door, Claudine looked at him. She looked at him, and while he waited for some expression to come to her face he knew how a doctor must feel sometimes when he looks at a belly. For her face was no more than a cover of skin, showing nothing of the terrible, complicated things, ugly and beautiful, that were going on inside her. ↗

— Douglas Woolf

#beauty