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“There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.”

People Thinking Way Faces Used Certain Seeing Expression Cameras Freak Posters Submissive Posing

Author:Rooney Mara

“I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.”

Feels Writing Trying Character Stories Eye Faces Term Expression Mouths Noses Theme Plot Discussing Story Writing

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”

People Trying Faces Ability Forever Expression Broken Awkward Cracked Trust Others

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.”

Humans Faces Language Poor Class Expression Skills International Ancient Human Experience Bourgeoisie Timely Upper Class Swedish Coquetry Extraction Intonation Language Skills

Author:Erland Josephson

“True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.”

Thinking Mind Persons Faces Beauty Moral Expression Depends Features Accustomed True Beauty

Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders

“Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.”

People Giving Kind Body Faces Expression Familiar Typical Portraits Portraiture

Book:Degas by Degas

Source: Degas by Degas

“I want to spit in the face of these badlands.”

Want Faces Expression Spit

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“The executioner's face is always well hidden.”

Wells Faces Expression Executioners

Author:Bob Dylan

“A fighter, a real strong fighter should always look dignified and calm and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training, then he will face the fight calm and balanced.”

Should Believe Looks Persons Real Faces Fighting Strong I Believe Ability Expression Training Weakness Calm Nervous Fighter Opponents Mma Balanced Aggression Be Confident Strong Person

Author:Fedor Emelianenko

“The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.”

Wells Faces Expression Angry Feds

Author:Keith Waterhouse

“The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.”

People Faces Song Seeing Heard Expression Tables Get Up Best Things Educate Djs Making People Happy

Author:Chelsea Leyland

“The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.”

Mind Ideas Faces Expression Arguing Enthusiasm Indifference Gentleman Sensibility Flexibility Refinement Enlargement Presence Of Mind

Author:William Hazlitt

“The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.”

People Shows Faces Expression Far Away

Author:Francoise Sagan

“[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.”

Ifs Men Looks Persons Faces Serious Expression Expected Miserable Unfair Ache Solemn Beam Serious Person

Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.”

“Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.”

Looks Faces Lost Expression Unique Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery

Author:Bo Derek

“The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.”

Men Character Helping Problem Faces Interesting Expression Speech Ordinary Solve Mood Ingenuity Countenance Interesting Characters Newman

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.”

Ifs Mind Character Eye Faces Names Interesting Expression Her Eyes Wrinkles Interesting Characters Inscriptions

Book:Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

Source: Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

“Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts.”

Faces Secret Expression Your Face Utterance Leaks

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.”

Eye Faces Choices Voice Expression Tone Eloquence

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings. We are all but His instruments who do our little bit and pass by. I believe that the way in which an act of kindness is done is as important as the action itself.”

Way Believe Littles Important Done Eye Action Faces I Believe Bits Kindness Expression Little Bit Instruments Warm Your Face Greetings Acts Of Kindness Your Smile

Author:Mother Teresa

“I have found when I look at an audience that the expressions on the peoples' faces aren't always up to par with the sounds that they're making. A crowd can sound like they're having a good time when your eyes are closed but if you open your eyes, the looks on some of those faces don't equal the sound.”

Ifs Looks Eye Faces Found Sound Audience Expression Equal Crowds Good Times Having A Good Time

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“When I go out, people look at me with a puzzled expression on their faces thinking, "You're Jackie Chan?". When people stare at me, it makes me uncomfortable. More and more I find that I just stay in my hotel when I am working.”

People Thinking Looks Faces Expression Staring Uncomfortable Hotel Look At Me Jackie Puzzled

Author:Jackie Chan

“There are cells in the brain that respond to faces. This is one of the reasons that I deal with portraiture. We can learn a lot about our perception of facial expression from the behavior of these cells.”

Reason Faces Deals Brain Expression Behavior Perception Cells Facial Portraiture Facial Expression

Author:Eric Kandel

“I've always used masks. I think it's a lot about the fact that masks often reveal a sort of subconscious element to a character. The mask is carved and given an expression or markings to reveal something, even though it's shielding the face. Even though it's hiding the face, it seems to reveal something underneath.”

Thinking Character Facts Seems Faces Used Given Expression Elements Mask Hiding Subconscious

Author:Dave McKean

“I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.”

Inspirational Motivational Faces Felt Animal Mines Expression Cat Pet Touching Cheeks Claws Expressions Of Love

Author:James Herriot

“Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing Stories Faces Sound Watches Expression Draws Mouths Sitting Drawing Ridiculous Sitting Down Curls Cartoonist Infantile Funny Face

Author:Al Jaffee

“To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions of his paintings: those are cartoons. Look at his sketch for the return of the prodigal son. The expression on the angry younger brother's face. The head is down; the eyebrow is just one curved line over the eyes. It communicates in a very shorthand way. It's beautiful, expressive, and, in a peculiar way, it's more powerful than the kind of stilted, formalized expression in the final painting.”

“When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.”

Light Eye Faces Speak Heaven Hell Expression Glory Ordinary Shining Heavenly Your Face Light Up Gleam

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.”

Giving Different Character Age Faces Expression Painter Your Face Complexion Bad Character Different Expressions

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in New York. At last the inventor managed to escape the crowd of people vying for his attention, and sat alone unnoticed in a corner. Edison kept looking at his watch with a resigned expression on his face. A friend edged near to him unnoticed and heard the inventor mutter to himself with a sigh, "If there were only a dog here!"”

People Ifs Bigs Lasts Faces Social Attention Watches Wife Heard Dog New York Expression Seasons Function Crowds Corners Sat Sigh Inventor Unnoticed Resigned

Author:Edmund Fuller

“A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'”

Writing Said Faces Party Wife Strange Expression Concerned Dinner Guests Dinner Party Thurber

Book:For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

Source: For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

“Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.”

Giving Persons Body Faces Expression

Book:The shop-talk of Edgar Degas

Source: The shop-talk of Edgar Degas

“Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.”

People Giving Body Faces Choices Attitude Expression Familiar Typical Portraits

Book:Edgar-Hilaire-Germain Degas

Source: Edgar-Hilaire-Germain Degas

“In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.”

Looks Lasts Faces Deals Gone Five Minutes Dog Expression Terrible Disguise Five Minutes My Dog Repose

Author:Judy Holliday

“Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.”

Firsts Faces Realizing Imagination Figures Expression Circumstances Degrees Hundred Perfection Sight Meetings Casts Love At First Sight

Book:New writings by Willam Hazlitt

Source: New writings by Willam Hazlitt

“I have always had a deep belief that every movie, every artistic expression, is political. Don't be fooled. Even ones that we wouldn't consider overtly political are political. When we spend time doing anything, whether it's distraction or whether it's something that we have to face, it is always political. That's my belief.”

Faces Political Belief Expression Artistic Distraction End Times Spend Time Fooled Artistic Expression

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. Intelligence is like underwear, everyone has it, but you don't have to show it off. The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.”

Important Shows Faces Expression Safe Clothes Built Ships Harbors Underwear

Author:Dale Carnegie

“Going out to eat is expensive. I was out at one restaurant and they didn't have prices on the menu. Just faces with different expressions of horror.”

Different Faces Expression Horror Restaurants Expensive Going Out Menus Different Expressions

Author:Rita Rudner

“My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.”

Faces Sound White Loneliness Expression Wall Solitude Music Is White Walls

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.”

Men Giving Faces Wise Stupid Expression Fool Photograph Hunger Innocence Thirst Outlaw Wretchedness Hunger And Thirst Ruffian

Author:Mark Twain

“The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed)”

Would Be Earth Faces Found Expression

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.”

Ifs Body Faces Expression Response Portraits Viewers

Author:Charis Wilson

“I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.”

“To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he wears then is lost forever... The human mechanism is remarkably recuperative. A half hour later, the expressions are gone, the faces have changed. The mother with the dead baby in her arms does not look griefstruck anymore, no matter what she feels.”

Feels Humans Looks Doe Matter Faces Mother Lost Hours Half Gone Forever Changed Expression Baby Arms No Matter What Prisoner Mechanism Captured Half Hours Best Picture Dead Baby

Author:Horst Faas

“I try to express with the camera what the story is, to get to the heart of the story with picture. In battle I look at things first in terms of people, second in terms of strategies or casualties... To tell a story, you don't photograph one hundred dead civilians to prove there were one hundred dead civilians. You photograph one dead civilian with an expression on his face that says, This is what it's like if you're a dead civilian in Vietnam.”

People Ifs Trying Firsts Looks Heart Stories Faces Term Expression Battle Prove Hundred Cameras Strategy Photograph Vietnam Civilians Casualties

Author:Horst Faas

“We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form.”

“In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I've found that if I go very close in to the face, then the posed expression no longer exists. The face becomes a landscape of the lakes of the eyes and the hills of the nose and the valley of the cleft of the chin.”

Ifs Looks Eye Faces Found Subjects Painting Expression Photograph Complaining Hills Landscape Noses Lakes Valleys Chins

Author:John Loengard

“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.”

Whole Would Be Faces Literature Expression Mask Awards Formal Deserving Exposing Linguistics Employing Panorama Deserving It

Author:Elfriede Jelinek