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“When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.”

Writing Looks Faces Moving Laughing Cry Fool

Author:Zoe Kazan

“These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.”

World Humans Hard Seems Faces Suffering Views Grief Meditation Cry Abuse Praise Instinct Profound Ancient Welcome Worried Impulse Uncertainty These Days Fragile Mistrust Spirited

Author:Patricia Hampl

“And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.”

Ifs Thinking Men Would Be Faces Certain Streets Dying Cry Emotional Empty Died Silly Newspapers Remembered Numbness

Book:Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man

Source: Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man

“That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.”

Men Wells Done Faces Cry Rewards Deeds Repent Well Done

Book:The Dhammapada

Source: The Dhammapada

“If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ." But if you have not got your foot upon the lowest round of the ladder, you will never come within sight of the blessed face of Him who stands at the top of it, and who looks down to you at this moment, saying to you, "My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?”

Ifs Looks Children Moments Faces Father Christ Feet Cry Birth Sight Blessed Rounds My Children Lowest Ladders Joints Heirs Abba Abba Father

Book:Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester

Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester

“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.”

Source: Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations

“The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!”

Faces Path Grace Cry Duty Calling Conscience Face To Face

Book:The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

“Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.”

Ifs Men Littles Faces Dies Names Numbers Mystery Cry Strange Rain Overcoming Woods Insane Our Family Gas One Man Throat Torn Chamber Caps Spit Accommodate Passivity Power Of One Gas Chambers

Author:Tadeusz Borowski

“You look out into the audience and you see so much joy on people's faces. You make eye contact with people who are almost crying because they can't believe they're seeing the Rumours five back again, they can't believe their eyes. It's almost like a family reunion on stage, there's no angst, there's no animosity, there's just tremendous amount of friendship.”

People Believe Looks Eye Faces Joy Audience Five Seeing Stage Cry Amount Contact Angst Back Again Reunion Animosity Rumours Eye Contact Family Reunion

Author:Christine McVie

“I had gotten rid of the crying when I got to high school, though it happened again when I was a junior. We lost in the state championship. It was kind of the same situation, camera in my face, and then that's when I realized it was over I had my moment.”

Kind States Moments School Faces Lost Situation Happened Cry High School Cameras I Realized Championship Juniors

Author:Chris Bosh

“In heaven we will not longer cry, feel sad, or face death. Our bodies will be perfect, locked into eternal youth... ageless.”

Feels Body Faces Heaven Perfect Cry Youth Eternal Locked Ageless Eternal Youth

Author:Paul P. Enns

“The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.”

People Age Faces Born Laughing Teacher Cry Mets Jokes Old Age Characteristics Consistent Timeless Sweetness Self Development Spontaneity Awakened Fluid Childlike

Book:Passionate Presence

Source: Passionate Presence

“If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.”

Ifs Giving Feelings Faces Moving Laughing Cry Exercise Muscles Your Face

Author:Salma Hayek

“Pain is subtle. He has cold grey fingers. His voice is horse from crying & screaming... When people try to avoid him, he follows them silently & turns upas the bartender, or the bus driver... Pain has an elaborate filing system for keeping track of everyone... Pain respects people who are willing to take risks. If you... face him directly, he will give you a special ointment so your wounds don't fester.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Pain Faces Turns Voice Risk Special Cry Willing Cold Horse Fingers Track Wounds Subtle Drivers Bus Grey Bartender Filing Respect People Bus Driver

Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“It's important for a director to provide as much information, especially when we're working with things that we have to conceive out of thin air. You can't just expect an actor to understand: 'Oh, there's a dinosaur coming at you". OK, so I'm going to automatically know how big it is and what it sounds like? I need details. How close does he get to me? How tall is he? What will the impact be of his cry when he's screaming at me or when he's blowing smoke or air in my face?”

Knows Needs Doe Important Bigs Faces Actors Sound Know How Air Cry Information Directors Impact Details Smoke Tall Dinosaurs Thin Air Blowing Smoke

Author:Zoe Saldana

“I'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.”

People Faces Cry Thousand Twenties Smiling Faces

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, in the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.”

Children War Ends Beautiful Faces Sun Cry Innocent Rainbow Teardrop Crying Child

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.”

Faces Form Born Laughing Cry

Author:Coco Chanel

“I've seen people that get onstage and sing while they have tears running down their face - I can't do that. When I cry, it starts like in my throat, so when I have something that's really emotional, sometimes if I access that too much, I can't finish the song.”

People Ifs I Can Sometimes Running Faces Song Too Much Cry Tears Emotional Access Throat

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came.”

Heart Littles Moments Faces Hours Behinds Cry Tears My Heart Solitude Advantage Ears Noses Pillow Thrust Agitation

Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“If you were a child and every time your relatives had a few drinks, they'd be running after you with scary faces and big hands to pull you back to sing Don't Cry For Me Argentina, you wouldn't like singing either.”

Ifs Children Hands Bigs Running Faces Cry Drink Singing Scary Argentina

Author:Roisin Murphy

“I can look back at my darkest periods and realize that these were the times when the Lord was holding me closest. But I couldn't see His face becasue my face was in His breast...crying.”

Looks I Can Faces Realizing Lord Cry Periods Breasts Closest

Author:John Michael Talbot

“I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.”

Knows Long Has Beens Sometimes Reality Faces Behinds Lord Laughing Cry Serious Goodness Jokes Misery Occasions Glorious Incarnation

Book:Swami Vivekananda on Himself

Source: Swami Vivekananda on Himself

“The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.”

Knows Long Faces Cry Misery Occasions Knowing God

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“I've never cared about how successful or how big I was going to be. I just wanted to be part of a story that affected people, made them laugh or cry. To me, that was more important than having my face on some billboard.”

People Made Important Stories Bigs Wanted Faces Laughing Successful Cry Affected Billboards

Author:Matt Bomer

“We had a teacher, named Mr. Brown, and he was writing something on the board once - he was writing something on the board, and he farted. And you would have thought kids had seen the face of God. Kids weren't even laughing; they were just sitting there screaming, just screaming. Kids had to get carted out; kids were screaming. Kids had to get carted out, and they were going to the nurses' office. Kids are crying in the hallway. 'Oh, this is our 9/11.' And it was. It was their 9/11 'cause they never thought anything like that could ever happen.”

Writing Happens Kids Faces Causes Laughing Teacher Cry Office Sitting Boards Brown Nurse Hallways Mr Brown

Author:Donald Glover

“I think boxers are the greatest athletes in all sports for the simple fact that they don't cry. That is mind-blowing. Have you ever been punched in the nose? Oh my gosh, it hurts so bad. They have to go back to corner, where some little man yells at them. 'Shut up, I just got punched in the face!'... If I was a boxer, do you know who I would hire as my corner man? My mom.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Mind Littles Facts Faces Sports Hurt Simple Cry Mom Athlete Corners My Mom Noses Do You Know Shut Up It Hurts Boxers Mind Blowing Little Man Greatest Athlete Oh My Gosh

Author:Daniel Tosh

“Just a tip if you have a big event to go to or an important meeting, if you cry enough your face swells up giving you a temporary lift.”

Ifs Giving Important Enough Bigs Faces Events Cry Meetings Lifts Temporary Your Face Big Events

Author:Bonnie McFarlane

“One of the hardest things in the world is to perform on record and get someone to enjoy and feel what you're doing. It's unlike, like TV you can, you can fake it with the face and the crying and the bits. Recording is completely different.”

World Feels Different Faces Bits Enjoy Records Cry Tvs Hardest Fake Hardest Thing

Author:Ben E. King

“That softness around your eyes, a softness in your face. Almost the way you feel when you’re about to start crying. That, to me, is love. It can be romantic love, it can be friendship love, it can be family love, it can be love for a chipmunk. It can be love for anything.”

Way Feels Eye Faces Cry Your Face Romantic Love Family Love Friendship Love Softness Chipmunks

Author:Moby

“I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't do that.' I didn't know how he did it. I've never seen anything like that. It's like this feat, this Rodin sculpture to me. It's like hearing an opera singer and the tears go down your face because it's not human what they're doing. It's like sounds of heaven.”

Knows Humans Said I Can Faces Heaven Sound Know How Wife Cry Tears Theater Hearing My Wife Singers Your Face Opera Sculpture Because I Can Feats Opera Singers Rodin

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face of poverty is black. In all actuality, the face of poverty is white.”

Faces Black Imagination Justice White Poverty Economic Cry Desperate Actuality Economic Justice

Author:Darryl Pinckney

“I don't think I could ever stop doing serious movies and just do comedies, or vice versa, but there is something cool about going to work everyday and you're just trying to make your friends laugh. That's nice work if you can get it, you know what I mean? It's different than going to work and knowing that I've gotta slap someone in the face today, and then I've gotta cry, and someone's gonna die, I've gotta get myself to that place.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Mean Different Today Faces Dies Laughing Knowing Comedy Nice Cry Serious Everyday Vices Going To Work Vice Versa Slap Nice Work

Author:John C. Reilly

“Breakup blackout is when you're so upset and you've been crying so much that you basically black out for a couple of days. You wake up to mascara caked on your face and empty ice cream cartons everywhere, and your iTunes has, like, four new really bad romantic comedies you've rented. And your friends are texting you, and for three days you're in this black hole.”

Faces Three Black Comedy Four Cry Couple Empty Wake Up Holes Ice Upset Breakup Your Face Cream Ice Cream Black Hole Texting Mascara Itunes Blackouts

Author:Rumer Willis

“That's probably why my face was looking so crazy when I was crying [in "Hardball"] because it was some real.”

Real Faces Crazy Cry

Author:Michael B. Jordan

“I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.”

People Ifs Faces Emotion Cry Policy Deep Emotions

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.”

People Feels War Seems Pain Faces Universe Consciousness Sea Cry Wind Lays Mood Instant Isolation

Book:Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows

Source: Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows

“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.”

Thinking Stills Faces Night Felt Sleep Heard Middle Cry Bed Rain Window Dry Slips Weeping Middle Of The Night Dripping Night Thinking

Author:Ray Bradbury

“American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”

“I shook so that it was some time before I realized that he was shaking too, and for the same reason. I don't know how long we sat there on the dusty floor, crying in each others arms with the longing of twenty years spilling down our faces.”

Knows Years Long Reason Faces Know How Cry Arms Twenties Longing I Realized Sat Shaking Spilling

Book:The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie, not just a sleeper, but also the big, overproduced first-run kind. I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar. And if some aficionado of my mess says "That's not like Frank!," all to the good! I don't wear brown and grey suits all the time, do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera, often. I want my feet to be bare, I want my face to be shaven, and my heart--you can't plan on the heart, but the better part of it, my poetry, is open.”

Ifs Want Firsts Heart Kind Bigs Running Faces Laughing Alive Plans Feet Cry My Heart Suits Mess Brown Poetry Is Opera Frank Grey Vulgar Strain Immediacy Sleepers Bad Movies

Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.”

Faces Fall Cry Tears Hot Pretending Freezing Boiling

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.”

Want Wells Made Feelings Faces Grows Millions Sun Air Cry Skins Weather Extras Sunshine Warmth Tenderness

Author:Ann Brashares

“Well! I had the most fantastic dream! Trees crying blood. Horrible dead elves going around and killing people! Raistlin wearing black robes! It was the most incredible thing! And you were there, Sturm. Laurana and Flint. And everyone died! Well, almost everyone. Raistlin didn't. And there was a green dragon-' Tasslehoff stopped. What was wrong with his friends? Their faces were pale, their eyes wide.”

People Wells Dream Eye Faces Black Tree Blood Cry Died Green Killing Incredibles Wide Horrible Fantastic Dragons Pale Robes Wearing Black

Book:Dragons of Winter Night

Source: Dragons of Winter Night

“The magician was studying her face with his green eyes. "Your face is wet," he said worriedly. "I hope that's spray. If you've become human enough to cry, then no magic in the world — oh, it must be spray. Come with me. It had better be spray.”

Ifs World Humans Said Enough Eye Faces Study Magic Cry Green Your Face Wet Magician Spray Green Eyes Magic In The World

Book:A fine and private place: The last unicorn

Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn

“I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.”

Want I Can Lasts Faces Song Dies White Forever Cry Mountain Bigger Scream Steel Weeping Refrigerators Hounds

Author:Charles Bukowski

“I don't want water!" Sarah cries, her face buried against my chest. I can't see what's going on in the rest of the lobby beacuse Sarah's hair is flying up in my face, blocking my view. I want justice!" she wails. Well, we'll get you some of that too." Magda has appeared from out of nowhere. "Maybe there's some in the freezer.”

Want Wells I Can Faces Water Justice Views Cry Hair Flying Block Chests Buried Freezer

Author:Meg Cabot

“Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror!”

“What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot owls and the boy who makes you cry after school, is mama's long hair, is being afraid and twisted faces on the bedroom wall)...is going to be alright.”

Source: Truman Capote: Conversations

“Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand still but perseveres in the face of adversity, nor does he remain untouched by the pain cause by absence. On the contrary, he recognizes himself in each cry, uttered or repressed, in the smallest rift, in the most pressing need.”

Men Needs Doe Stills Pain Remember Faces Causes Cry Adversity Absence Contrary Accomplished Yearning Smallest Persevere Repressed Facing Adversity Rift

Author:Elie Wiesel