#masks

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#developed #faces #like #masks #own

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#cannot #fear #know #live #masks

Also, I use facial masks diligently. I use at least two a day - one for moisturizing and one for whitening. I think I go through at least 600 sheets of facial masks every year. ↗

— Fan Binbing

#day #diligently #every #facial #go

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#fashionable #longer #masks #new #new york

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time? ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#civil #civil war #could #go #grenades

Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#choosing #get #had #helps #leather

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#arts #being #being funny #certainly #citizen

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#easy #find #hiding #masks #people

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

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now? ↗

— Ernst Toller

#ask #could #dead #death #earthly