Quotes of: Faces Keyword

The the uncertainty was dispelled and the melancholy lifted as he saw a familiar stocky figure moving near one of the tents. "Halt!" he cried out gladly, and a slight pressure with his knees set Tug galloping through the deserted Gathering site. The ...

The Sorcerer in the North

One by one the angels had come to the top of Har Megiddo where I sat, holding her body close to mine after she'd died. I'd fought alongside them in battle, but up close, when they stood quietly watching us, they looked as beautiful as they looked unr...

Shadows in the Silence

Argh!" Thalia pushed me, and a shock went through my body that blew me backward ten feet into the water. Some of the campers gasped. A couple of the Hunters stifled laughs. "Sorry!" Thalia said, turning pale. "I didn't mean to—" Anger roared in my ...

The Titan's Curse

I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt marsh. There was nothing to block the wind that had picked up speed and vigor from its Atlantic crossing. I’d study the stars in the...

Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

God could, had He pleased, have been incarnate in a man of iron nerves, the Stoic sort who lets no sigh escape him. Of His great humility He chose to be incarnate in a man of delicate sensibilities who wept at the grave of Lazarus and sweated blood i...

C.S. Lewis

There's a very mean girl down the hall who's trying to get me fired. I'm no good with confrontation, so whenever I say, "Have a wonderful day," to her out loud, I'm really saying, "Be nice to me or I will stab you in the face with a fork," in my head...

Jenny Lawson

Flotsam & Jetsam: Poor child. Poor, sweet child. She has a very serious problem. If only there was something we could do. But there is something. Ariel: Who who are you? Flotsam & Jetsam: Don't be scared. We represent someone who can help you. Someon...

The Little Mermaid

[Following Lauda's press conference, Hunt approaches the British journalist that offended Lauda] British Journalish: James, are you all right? James Hunt: Good, yeah. Listen, I think I've got something for you on that last question, about Niki. Briti...

Rush

Man on the Train: Hey, are you a dreamer? Wiley: Yeah. Man on the Train: I haven't seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead it's just that it's been forg...

Waking Life

Jim: Well, it got so that every piss-ant prairie punk who thought he could shoot a gun would ride into town to try out the Waco Kid. I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille. It got pretty gritty. I started to hear the word "draw" in my slee...

Blazing Saddles

Smug-faced punk kid acts like he's better than everyone…oh look at me I'm so polite… please.

Coming Full Circle

n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self......

Cicero De Amicitia (On Friendship) And Scipio's Dream

How can you be in love with someone for forever and not be willing to take a chance when it finally hits you in the face like a linebacker?

Catching Jordan

In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.

Canada

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." [ ]

The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

She clung to the memories of her youth as if they were the only way she could save a piece of her soul from whatever it was she was about to face.

Captive

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

The Complete Poems

I'm pretty durable, but concrete and I have faced off before. While I didn't die, I wouldn't say I won, either.

Cracked

Pretty girls kissed me on victory day, their lips soft red petals brushing my face.

Cold Skin

There is something about me, doll face. It’s between my legs, and I do believe a few minutes ago you were praying to it.

Crushed Seraphim