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 ~
Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
~By Bill Hybels ~
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 ~
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 ~
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
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 ~
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 ~
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
~By Bette Davis ~
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
~By Lester Bangs ~
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
~By Norman Spinrad ~
The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
~By Murray Kempton ~
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.
~By Walter Salles ~
I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.
~By Shannon Miller ~
I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
~By Camille Claudel ~
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
~By Gordon Lightfoot ~
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 ~
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
~By Andre Malraux ~
I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
~By Fred Allen ~
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.
~By Georges Rouault ~
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
~By Jacqueline Cochran ~
One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.
~By Steve Case ~
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 ~
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~
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 ~
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 ~
While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.
~By Chaka Fattah ~
First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.
~By Lionel Blue ~
All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.
~By Helena Rubinstein ~
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
~By Austin O'Malley ~
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
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 ~
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 ~
DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
One faces the future with one's past.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
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.
~By Margot Asquith ~
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.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.
~By Graham Chapman ~
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 ~
My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
~By Beverley Mitchell ~
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 ~
And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.
~By Patty Hearst ~
As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.
~By George Wald ~
When a piece gets difficult, make faces.
~By Artur Schnabel ~
I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.
~By William Devane ~
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 ~
The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it.
~By David Thewlis ~
Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television.
~By Johnny Olson ~
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 ~
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 ~
When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.
~By Vincent Frank ~
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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 ~
Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers.
~By Ron Lewis ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
America faces a new race that has awakened.
~By E. Franklin Frazier ~
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.
~By Elizabeth Blackwell ~
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 ~
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
~By William Osler ~
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
~By Robert Smithson ~
Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.
~By Craig L. Thomas ~
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
~By Maurice Baring ~
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
~By Sara Teasdale ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.
~By Italo Svevo ~
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 ~
Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
~By Robert Smith ~
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
~By Euripides ~
Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people's faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.
~By Jason Mraz ~
I think I'm a million different faces.
~By Rachael Leigh Cook ~
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?
~By Al Roker ~
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
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 ~
South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.
~By William Colby ~
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 ~
I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.
~By Frank Bruno ~
I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.
~By Natalie Portman ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~By Ashley Smith ~
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
~By Maureen Murphy ~
With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
~By Billy Koch ~
You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.
~By Nell Carter ~
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 ~
Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.
~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
~By Thomas Browne ~
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 ~
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