Face Quotes and Sayings

Posted by Brian

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I’m thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it’s our front, it’s our face.
- Faith Ringgold

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and – I can’t remember what the third thing is.
- Fred A. Allen

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don’t feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.
- Napoleon Hill

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
- Walter Scott

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
- Henry David Thoreau

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
- George Burns

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
- Barbara Jordan

I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, ‘Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn’t look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?
- Al Roker

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don’t all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.
- Geri Halliwell

I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
- Author Unknown

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
- Margot Asquith

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It’s like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.
- Sharon Stone

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.
- Brian Moore

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.
- Loretta Young

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.
- William Devane

Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
- Bette Davis

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.
- James Herriot

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
- Lauren Bacall

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men’s bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
- Malcolm De Chazal

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy…. One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear has many faces.
- Nicolas Roeg

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.
- Thomas Browne

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
- Helen Keller

Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
- Gail Lumet Buckley

Arnold Palmer has what I call an ‘Eisenhower smile’. Those two men, they’d smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
- Byron Nelson

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there’s nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
- Ani Difranco

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
- Daniel Barenboim

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.
- Elizabeth Blackwell

I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it ‘The Men’ and call it ‘The Women’ and show different faces of these two people.
- Faith Ringgold


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