Quotes About Expression

The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the 'Oh how banal.'

Sometimes when you smile, it's not because you're happy. It's because you're strong.

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

Desecration is the smile on my face.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.

My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.

Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.

Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.

Smile may be of different style,but that which adorns the face of a real person is only an honest ONE.

How do you do that?" Mennis asked, frowning. "What?" "Smile so much." "Oh, I'm just a happy person.

I do not understand how you humans can walk in shoes that are that tall." "Its my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. "Nothing less than seven inches.

If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.

To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.

You can communicate by responding with your body or with a hand clap, with a laugh or with a smile, with non-verbal communication.

A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.

Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.