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“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

“Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.”

Trying Eye Watches Mouths

Author:John Thaw

“The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.”

Eye Blood Mouths Ears Pressure Cruelty Materialism Steady Mail Blood Pressure Intestines

Author:Herbert Gold

“There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth.”

Eye Differences Mouths Noses Crooked Symmetry Portraiture

Author:Edouard Manet

“The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon than the eyes. The mouth is also riddled with a complex interweaving of folds, curves, flats and lost-and-found edges. These nuances are needed by a perceptive person who might try to understand human nature.”

Trying Humans Persons Might Eye Found Lost Known Subjects Human Nature Needed Kissing Speech Mouths Areas Complexes Edges Noses Flats Vehicle Curves Folds Chins Nuance Portraiture Lost And Found

Author:Robert Genn

“One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.”

Book:The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels

Source: The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels

“All I know is it’s silly to chase fun when all you need is the ground underneath you to be solid. And I don’t expect to be one of those people that does cartwheels in yogurt commercials. I wanna be the cartoon character in that antidepressant ad who has, like, little lines under her eyes, and the divot in the middle of the pill is the pill’s mouth... have you seen this ad? It’s very good. It’s for Abilify, which is not a word.”

People Knows Needs Littles Doe Character Eye Fun Lines Middle Mouths Very Good Silly Ads Her Eyes Cartoon Pills Yogurt Antidepressants Cartoon Character Cartwheels

Author:Julie Klausner

“The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.”

Eye Sound Mouths Hot Ancient Dry Stomach Engines Cages Palms Jet Ribs Pavement Vacant Travels With Charley Warming Up Rib Cage

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.”

World Eye Three Practice Meditation Mouths Ears Monkeys Phenomenal

Author:Wei Wu Wei

“Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.”

Eye Running Desire Dark Imagine Week Color Baby Mouths Universal Election Size Extremes Wide Rage Presidential Voting Live By Covered Sweat Potatoes Mute Presidential Election Infantile Hippo

Book:Idoru

Source: Idoru

“Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point. We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear--and a voracious mouth to swallow.”

Looks Long Whole Facts Eye Together Sides Cities Brain Groups Arms Becoming Mouths All Things Ears Paris Sensitive Centre Comprehensive Classification Forerunners

Book:The Burial of the Rats

Source: The Burial of the Rats

“Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire thy hands. Though thou wert even as the orangutan yet shall she paint thee with fancies.”

Ifs Love Hands Eye Son Mouths Sight Praise Paint Corners Admire Thee Fancy Handsome Maidens Orangutans

Author:Gelett Burgess

“The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.”

Littles Sometimes Reality Eye Universe Stage Mines Mouths Circles Visible Coming Out Projectors

Book:The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.”

Trying Whole Eye Born Mistake Mouths Whole Life Reverse

Author:Dale E. Turner

“Why can't I believe? she asked the darkness. Behind her eyelids she saw an animal. It was golden colour, with gentle green eyes and canine teeth, and curly wool instead of fur. It opened its mouth, but it did not speak. Instead, it yawned.It gazed at her. She gazed at it. "You are the effect of a carefully calibrated blend of plant toxins," she told it.Then she fell asleep.”

Believe Eye Speak I Believe Animal Behinds Darkness Saws Effects Mouths Green Plant Teeth Golden Gentle Colour Fur Canine Eyelids Wool Toxins Green Eyes

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.”

Looks Heart Eye Beauty Sweet Mouths Intelligent

Author:Leigh Hunt

“... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.”

Has Beens Eye Emotion Impossible Produce Taught Involved Mouths Thirty Muscles Wrinkles Register Starlets Halibut

Author:Jean Kerr

“Beauties, when disposed to sleep, Should from the eye of keen inspector keep: The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise, May close her mouth, but not conceal her eyes; Sleep from the fairest face some beauty takes, And all the homely features homelier makes.”

Should May Eye Faces Sleep Mouths Surprise Lovely Features Her Eyes Homely Inspectors Nymphs

Book:The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

Source: The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

“One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.”

Ifs Men Different Would Be Eye Pain Joy Water Tears Mouths Blind Strikes Cups Breasts Shed Consternation

Book:Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

Source: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

“Every time you envy someone you use a muscle in your face to disadvantage. If you do it only once or twice, it can be erased. But over a period of years, those muscles will tighten your mouth, narrow your eyes, and help destroy your attractiveness.”

Ifs Years Helping Use Eye Faces Periods Mouths Envy Muscles Your Face Disadvantages Attractiveness

Author:Arlene Dahl

“You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.”

Ifs Feels Trying Eye Ought Creatures Eating Mouths Focused Restaurants Caves Whales Forks Oysters Eating Raw

Author:Lillian Russell

“Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me.”

Thinking Men Heart Eye Speak Christ Mouths Ears Every Man Think Of Me Eyes That See

Author:Saint Patrick

“I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.”

Men Looks Soul Eye Mother Found Father Grows Youth Lovers Mouths Bones Flesh Tales My Soul Fairy Old Man Categories Fairy Tale Folds Cracked Fragmented

Author:Jennifer Stone

“Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.”

Eye Minutes Eating Mouths Tongue Nuts Brazil Peppers Garlic Hazelnuts

Author:Andrea McLean

“I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.”

Feels May Persons Eye Anxiety Mouths Lawyer Curious Accents

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

“Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our brothers crawl. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do as you please with us, but do not send us away from you.”

Eye Wish Walks Fire Cutting Brother Please Mouths Blessed Humble Flames Away From You Cringe Granite

Book:Anthem

Source: Anthem

“One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extraordinary capacity of expressing terror. It was not on the surface. It was in no one feature that it lingered. You could not take the eyes or mouth, or lines upon the cheek, and say, if this or that were otherwise, it would not be so. Yet there it always lurked-something for ever dimly seen, but ever there, and never absent for a moment.”

Source: Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations

“the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still numbering the units in each group; the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise”

Stills Eye Faces Groups Mouths Legs Units

Book:Observations: Poems

Source: Observations: Poems

“The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.”

Eye Black White Silence Bird Mouths Red Shoulders Muscles Each Day Shock Silence Is Black Eyes White Birds

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“Let the dry eyes perceive Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve.”

Eye Lying Loss Laughing Mouths Perceive Dry Betray Curves Sleeves

Book:Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

Source: Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

“some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.”

Soul Eye Song Sound Blood Genius Mouths Hot South Folks Folk Songs

Book:The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

Source: The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

“It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.”

Men Giving Eye Spirit Minutes Ten Mouths Newspapers Remarkable Irresponsible Through My Eyes

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.”

People Want Two Body Bigs Eye Faces Mouths Ears Sticks Noses Pairs Flats Skinny Sock Ankles Clarinet

Author:Goldie Hawn

“A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.”

Should Doe Eye Moving President Policy Mouths Bills Court Paint Supreme Extras Executives Territory Supreme Court Executive Power

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.”

Littles Two Eye Asks Answers Beauty Mouths Female Rounds Brown Flats Yellow Coming Out Belly Toads

Author:Voltaire

“I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.”

Feels Eye Focus Scene Mouths Shots Uncomfortable

Author:Andrew Davies

“As soon as the actor steps into the role, you probably can cut 50% of the lines because there's a person there now. And what a person does with their eyes, with their mouth, with their hands, the way they walk into a room, you can probably cut half the scene.”

Way Persons Doe Hands Eye Actors Lines Walks Rooms Half Steps Roles Cutting Scene Mouths

Author:Stanley Tucci

“Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.”

People Should Stories Eye Film Sound Term Justice Mouths Dialogue Visuals Film Directors Film Directing Directing Film

Book:Hitchcock

Source: Hitchcock

“When I talk to a man, I can always tell what he's thinking by where he is looking. If he is looking at my eyes, he is looking for intelligence. If he is looking at my mouth, he is looking for wisdom. But if he is looking anywhere else except my chest he's looking for another man.”

Ifs Thinking Men I Can Eye Mouths Chests Another Man

Author:Dolly Parton

“Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore legs or two wings or two arms on the shoulders & two legs on the hips one on either side & no more?”

Men Two Eye Faces Left Sides Atheism Mankind Arms Bird Mouths Ears Wings Legs Accidents Shoulders Holes Hips Noses Beast Professors Bowels

Book:Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings

Source: Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings

“The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.”

Hands Eye Brain Mouths

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“He who immerses himself in sexual intercourse will be assailed by premature aging, his strength will wane, his eyes will weaken, and a bad odour will emit from his mouth and his armpits, his teeth will fall out and many other maladies will afflict him.”

Eye Fall Mouths Aging Teeth His Eyes Intercourse Premature Malady Armpits

Author:Maimonides

“We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.”

Source: The Novels of Victor Hugo: Profusely Illustrated with Elegant Wood Engravings

“Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.”

People Way Mind Eye Age Black White Boys Laughing Week Broken Mouths Corners Newspapers Magazines Evening His Eyes Get Back Gang Twisted Of My Mind Swollen Emmett Till

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.”

Persons Two Eye Purpose Voice Attention Air Ignorance Judging Mouths Blind Lips Appearance Wide Neglect Thick Prominent Disgusted Short Sighted

Book:Horace Walpole: Memoirs and Portraits

Source: Horace Walpole: Memoirs and Portraits

“Part of growing up is learning your strengths and weaknesses. What better way to figure out that hand-eye coordination ain't your thing than by getting drilled in the mouth by a red, rubber ball? You only gotta get beaned in the face so many times before you figure out, 'I better hit the books because this is not working out.”

Way Book Hands Eye Faces Growing Up Growing Figures Mouths Weakness Red Balls Work Out Better Ways Rubber Strength And Weakness Coordination

Author:Greg Giraldo

“Somebody would come in and say, I never take a good picture. I'd say, Why not? You've got two eyes, a nose, and a mouth like everybody else.”

Two Eye Mouths Noses Why Not

Author:James Van Der Zee

“[Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.”

People Eye Age Faces Left Growth Can Do Mouths Skins Madness Mark Cameras Disappointment Ugly Flesh Horrible Necks Sickness Anxious Fearful Alcoholism Wrinkles Horrible Things Irreversible

Author:Janet Malcolm

“Every creature reproduces after its kind. A dog gives birth to dogs, a cat gives birth to cats, a cow gives birth to cows, a monkey reproduces monkeys and a human reproduces humans. So when God gives birth, what do you think He'll reproduce? gods, of course! When God created Man, He created him in His image and after His likeness. That's why we look like Him; we have two hands the same way He has two hands. We have two legs, one head, one mouth, one nose, two ears and two eyes just like Him.”

Thinking Men Way Giving Humans Looks Kind Two Hands Eye Courses Dog Birth Creatures Mouths Cat Ears Legs Noses Cows Monkeys Two Hands

Author:Chris Oyakhilome

“The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton.”

Eye Lows Mouths Ears Best Things Profile

Author:CM Punk