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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

“The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.”

Littles Faces Mouths Stupidity Criminals Gossip Frightened Your Face Vibrate

Author:Michael Bassey

“When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release the tension from our face as we smile. Others who run into us notice it, even strangers, and are likely to smile back. It is a wonderful chain reaction that we can initiate, touching the joy in anyone we encounter. Smiling is an ambassador of goodwill.”

Motivational Running Faces Joy Wonderful Mouths Yoga Stranger Reactions Chains Release Tension Encounters Muscles Touching Relaxed Goodwill Ambassadors Initiate Chain Reactions

Author:Nhat Hanh

“You have to deduce a person's real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face, by the way bitterness tightens muscles at a mouth's corner, or the way air is allowed to flow from the lungs.”

Knows Way Persons Doe Real Feelings Faces Air Mouths Flow Corners Muscles Bitterness Lungs Real Feelings

Author:Doris Lessing

“I don't think it's illegal. I don't think it's against the rules. It's as dangerous for me to have a toothpick in your mouth as it is to have a 200-pound man punch me in the face hard or try to kick me in the face. I'm more worried about that, to be honest. I don't have any superstitions. I won world titles with a toothpick. I defended it without a toothpick. It all depends. Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't. It's a bad habit. I know I shouldn't do it, but it's fine.”

Thinking Knows Men World Trying Sometimes Hard Faces Honest Dangerous Fine Depends Habit Mouths Being Honest Worried Titles Kicks Pounds Illegal Superstitions Bad Habits Toothpicks

Author:Benson Henderson

“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

“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

“In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.”

Persons Seems Faces Mouths Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Anywhere but Here

Source: Anywhere but Here

“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 only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are”

Truth Faces Poetry Fighting Black White Dying Poet Truth Is Racism Mouths Black And White Face To Face

Book:Odes

Source: Odes

“The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.”

May Truth Faces Lying Mouths Telling The Truth Alright

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The law stops every man's mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.”

Men Faces Law Speak Mouths Humble Every Man Gods Will Sinner Repentance Righteousness

Book:God's Good News

Source: God's Good News

“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

“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

“Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Kind Doe Would Be Running Wanted Faces Games Losing Mouths Blame Unsure Always Running Personal Attacks Losing A Game

Author:Carl Crawford

“You can look at the Emmys two ways in you're nominated. It's either win-win or lose-lose. If things go very well and I win, you still have to get up in front of a group of people and risk having God knows what come out of your mouth. If you won't win, you have to breathe deeply and smile and clap with a camera in your face.”

People Ifs Knows Way Wells Looks Stills Two Faces Winning Loses Risk Groups Fronts Mouths Cameras Breathe Get Up Your Face God Knows Two Ways Win Or Lose Win Win Emmys

Author:Jim Parsons

“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

“You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.”

Faces Language Voice Mouths Tongue Muscles Accents Dialect

Author:Lake Bell

“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

“[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

“People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.”

People Should Faces Mouths

Author:Kevin Hart

“When I was born, they didn't work. They're broken, the nerves in my lower left lip. When I was kid, I would talk out of the side of my face. When I was 16 and came up to Hollywood from Orange County, I was in this cattle call audition for Batman and Robin at Warner Bros., and they interviewed me out front of the studio. When I got home, I was like, "Oh, this was exciting!" But then when I watched the news, I was like, "Mom, what is wrong with my mouth?!"”

Home Kids Faces Left Sides Born Fronts Broken Mom News Mouths Hollywood Exciting Lips Studios Nerves Auditions Orange County Cattle Robins Bros Warner Bros Orange County

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“The scene [in The Hangover] where the tiger actually pops up behind us, that's actually a Jim Henson tiger puppet. The Jim Henson Company actually supplied that tiger. And it's really cool. Its entire face moves. It has like all these little motors in its eyebrows and cheeks and mouth. It was amazing.”

Littles Faces Moving Behinds Company Scene Mouths Pops Cheeks Tigers Eyebrows Motor Really Cool Puppets Hangover

Author:Ed Helms

“Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.”

Faces Used Artist Actors Sun Mouths Wide Muscles Mobile Expressive Facial

Author:Norman Rockwell

“A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.”

Men Faces Interesting Mouths Aspiration Pessimism Interesting Things Monograms

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.”

Source: At Swim-two-birds

“His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.”

Looks Might Faces Mouths Red Fingers Clever Queens Handsome Sticky

Book:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Source: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it passes through the cabin, through the wreck; washing the cliffs and shores of the island, it runs northward and southward to the ends of the earth. Soft and cold, dark and unending, it beats against my eyelids, against the skin of my face.”

Ends Body Running Earth Faces Dark Cold Beats Mouths Flow Skins Breaths Islands Streams Shore Cliffs Wrecks Washing Interruptions Unending Cabins Eyelids

Book:Foe: A Novel

Source: Foe: A Novel

“I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.”

Mind Kind Different Faces Names Air Expression Mouths Criticism Ill Favourite Shut Up Jane Slumber Immunity Austen Imbeciles Hostesses

Author:E. M. Forster

“Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Two Faces Girl Kindness Youth Sweet Mouths Blame Forgotten Dear Mysterious Evening Fallen Fifty Your Face Twilight Gathering Concealed Meanness

Author:James M. Barrie

“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on.”

“Those blue eyes glinted with uncivilized suggestion. A faint smile was tucked in the corner of his wide mouth. Definitely wouldn't want to be alone in a room with that guy, I thought. His gaze moved downward in lazy inspection, returned to my face, and he gave me one of those respectful nods that Texan men had raised to an art form.”

Men Want Art Eye Faces Form Guy Rooms Mouths Blue Moved Raised Corners Wide Lazy Suggestions Respectful That Guy Blue Eyes Inspection Texan Uncivilized Wants To Be Alone

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to fly from the body once and for all. Lovers have been known to have heart attacks. Lovers drink too much from nervousness and cannot perform. They eat too little and faint during their fervently wished consummation. They do not stroke the favoured cat and their face-paint comes loose. This is not all. Whatever you have set store by, your dress, your dinner, your poetry, will go wrong.”

Heart Littles Has Beens Matter Body Faces Known Too Much Lovers Drink Conversation Mouths Cat Dresses Paint Dinner Stores Dry Sweat Flags Strokes Threatening Palms Heart Attack Nervousness Dry Up

Book:The Passion

Source: The Passion

“Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open? Have you ever been so angry that you couldn’t look in the mirror for fear of finding the face of evil glaring back at you?”

Looks Faces Evil Force Cases Struggle Findings Mouths Mirrors Angry Dare Wide Nuclear Harness Churning

Book:Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy

Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy

“He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away, he took her face between his hands and kissed her again, on her forehead, on her nose, on her mouth once more. "You will come, won't you? Promisse!" he whispered.”

Hands Faces Mouths Rain Skins Shoulders Noses Wet Foreheads

Book:Inkspell

Source: Inkspell

“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Source: James and the Giant Peach

“I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.”

Truth Faces Promise Mouths

Book:45 Mercy Street

Source: 45 Mercy Street

“When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.”

Knows Long Hands Lasts Faces Turns Know How Missing Taste Letting Go Kissing Mouths Warm Tongue Cups Breathing Honey Kiss Me Jellicoe Road

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him.”

Hands Pain Faces Choices Doubt Mouths Empty Filled Tongue Roof Consumed Drank

Book:Second Glance: A Novel

Source: Second Glance: A Novel

“She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.”

People Looks Heart Said Eye Faces Talking Saws Needed Mouths Patterns Phones Planes Noses Airports Trembling People Talking Cupcakes Hide And Seek Dashing

Author:Lorrie Moore

“Elizabeth’s hands flew to her mouth; tears filled her eyes with happiness as she realized he was fulfilling yet another of her and her mother’s intended activities. “Why are you fulfilling all of my mother’s dreams?” she asked, studying his face and searching for answers. “So you don’t run away like she did in search of them,” he replied, taking her hand. “Come on, join in!” he said, leaping around.”

Said Dream Hands Eye Running Faces Mother Answers Study Tears Activity Mouths Filled Running Away Fulfilling Her Eyes Flew

Book:If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

“He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.”

Made Eye Faces Names Sound Blood Arms Mouths Window Ears Bones Shoulders Buried Laughed Salt Her Eyes Jace Simplest Luke Ardor

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Will you be quiet?" he asked, smiling down at her. She nodded. He pretended to think about it. "I don't believe you/" She planted her hands on her hips, which had to be a ludicrous postition, naked as she was from the waist up. All right," he acceded, "but the only words I'll allow from your mouth are, 'Oh, Gareth,' and 'Yes, Gareth.' He lifted his finger. What about 'More, Gareth?'" He almost kept a straith face. "That will be acceptable”

Thinking Believe Hands Faces Quiet Mouths Fingers Don't Believe Naked Hips Acceptable I Don't Believe You

Author:Julia Quinn

“Magnus looked at her meditatively. 'I think,' he said, 'there isn't much that Jace wouldn't do for you, if you asked him.' Clary opened her mouth and then shut it again. She thought of the way Magnus had always seemed to know how Alec felt about Jace, how Simon felt about her. Her feelings for Jace must be written on her face even now, and Magnus was an expert reader. She glanced away.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Said Feelings Faces Felt Know How Written Reader Mouths Experts Jace

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all.”

Whole Eye Faces Next Cry Kissing Mouths Ears Noses Her Eyes Eyebrows Foreheads Kissing Her

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body. Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. 'I'm glad I wasn't stuck in here alone,' she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath.”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night." He opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a moment, his unreadable mask falling into place. He spoke softly. "But that wouldn't be fair; for after I slept you'd be left awake, with no one to help you sleep.”

Ifs Mind Moments Helping Faces Night Fall Left Sleep Mouths Fairs Awake Mask Spokes

Author:Kristin Cashore

“I was about to look away when he reached across the seat, touched my jaw with his long, strong, beautiful fingers, and caressed my face. Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you must be the most special person in the world. It’s like walking up to the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your head it its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and purrs.”

World Feels Looks Persons Long Beautiful Faces Lying Strong Kindness Special Like You Walking Mouths Fingers Seats Touched Lions Savages Jungle Jericho Lying Down Jericho Barrons

Author:Karen Marie Moning