When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.
~By Graham Chapman ~
People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
~By Abbe Pierre ~
While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars.
~By Michael Crapo ~
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.
~By John Yoo ~
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
~By Francesco Guicciardini ~
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
~By Andre Malraux ~
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
~By Willa Cather ~
And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
~By Thomas Browne ~
Social Security faces financial problems down the road because of demographics.
~By John S. Tanner ~
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
~By George Eliot ~
Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!
~By Lee Remick ~
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.
~By Geri Halliwell ~
There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera.
~By Ron Livingston ~
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
~By Ansel Adams ~
The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
~By Erich Maria Remarque ~
Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.
~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.
~By Henry W. Kendall ~
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.
~By Timothy Dalton ~
When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.
~By Robert Cailliau ~
I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.
~By Erich Maria Remarque ~
Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.
~By Aishwarya Rai ~
The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist.
~By James Forrestal ~
So the first season about halfway through he just sort of put us together and then broke us up all within one episode. One of the ideas is to have us do that once a year - to have everything blow up in our faces and not work out.
~By Sarah Chalke ~
The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent.
~By Tom Coburn ~
I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.
~By Alison Lohman ~
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
~By Maurice Baring ~
Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.
~By Peter Farrelly ~
We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.
~By Chief Joseph ~
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
~By George Orwell ~
Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.
~By Rick Renzi ~
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
~By Robert Caro ~
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.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.
~By Gina Gershon ~
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.
~By Brian Moore ~
You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.
~By Bubba Smith ~
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
Fear has many faces.
~By Nicolas Roeg ~
I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
~By John Updike ~
Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'
~By Jim Carrey ~
One faces the future with one's past.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
My sisters said, Why do you make those faces? You make yourself so ugly.
~By Paul Lynde ~
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.
~By James Herriot ~
I think I'm a million different faces.
~By Rachael Leigh Cook ~
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?
~By Richard Corliss ~
You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea.
~By Michael Aspel ~
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
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.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~
Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.
~By James Agate ~
When a piece gets difficult, make faces.
~By Artur Schnabel ~
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
~By Alice Walker ~
I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.
~By Ella R. Bloor ~
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction "If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."
~By Petra Kelly ~
I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.
~By Donald Norman ~
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.
~By Lawrence Hargrave ~
I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.
~By Alvin Lee ~
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.
~By Lynn Westmoreland ~
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
~By Jacqueline Cochran ~
Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.
~By Lionel Blue ~
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.
~By Dave Barry ~
The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.
~By Claudia Black ~
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
~By Maureen Murphy ~
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.
~By Byron Nelson ~
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
~By Brian Eno ~
But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.
~By John M. McHugh ~
South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.
~By William Colby ~
I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards.
~By Dorothy Gish ~
But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.
~By John Hutton ~
Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
~By George Burns ~
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
~By William Golding ~
If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.
~By Jana Novotna ~
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
America faces a new race that has awakened.
~By E. Franklin Frazier ~
I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.
~By John Betjeman ~
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
~By Robert Smithson ~
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
~By Jim Morrison ~
It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.
~By Latrell Sprewell ~
All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
~By Mark Crispin Miller ~
Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.
~By Alex Noble ~
My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
~By Beverley Mitchell ~
It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!
~By Kelly Osbourne ~
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
~By Alice Walker ~
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
~By Al Gore ~
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.
~By Faith Ringgold ~
I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.
~By Shannon Miller ~
It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.
~By Andy Partridge ~
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