Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

George Bernard Shaw

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

Fredric March

It has been my experience that work on the screen clarifies stage portrayals and vice versa. You learn to make your face express more in making movies, and in working for the theater you have a sense of greater freedom.

Erica Jong

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

But within a few minutes, he walks out on his balcony, which faces Greenwood, walks to the railing and throws himself over.

He's rubbing their faces with Bolton's bushy mustache.

Jack Dee

The film industry is like Anne Robinsonalways on the look-out for a new face

J. G. Ballard

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.

Jennifer Saunders

I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching.

Jerry Pournelle

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

Neil Gaiman

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

John Waters

To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.

John Scalzi

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

Rajneesh

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.

Marie Lu

I have to force a smile off my face as I sit limply in my seat... Then, just as I'm congratulating myself for such a stellar plan...

Marie Lu

I take a step toward him and grin cheerfully. "With all due respect, I don't see the Republic tacking up wanted posters with your pretty face on them.

Ted Shackelford

But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

Max Lucado

The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.

Max Lucado

Giants. We must face them. Yet we need not face them alone.

May Sarton

For after all we make our faces as we go along...

We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.

Maureen Johnson

And what else is she?" Jerome asked. Jazza didn't offer any reply so I chimed in with, "A bitchweasel?" "A bitchweasel!" Jazza's face lit up. "She's a bitchweasel! I love my new roommate.

Maureen Johnson

We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.

Maya Angelou

Don't face the day until you've faced God.

Patricia Briggs

It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.

Lance Armstrong

If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

Neil Gaiman

And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.

Ninette de Valois

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

Markus Zusak

It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.

Mason Cooley

Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

Michael Grant

Brittney, it was wrong to murder even before Moses brought down the commandments. Right and wrong doesn't come from God. It's inside us. And we know it. And even if God appears right in front of us, and tells us to our faces to murder, it's still wrong.