"She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were grey; her trick of narrowing them made her seem to reflect, the greater part of the time, in the dusk of her second thoughts. With that mood, that touch of arriere pensee, went an uncertain, speaking set of lips."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Eye Quotes #Looks Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Make good thy standing place, and move the world.”
“Expectations are resentments under construction.”

Source : Anne Lamott (2017). “Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy”, p.29, Penguin
“When I first started, I wasn't really into movies that much unless it was an action-packed gunslinger with naked women here and there.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'm one of the people who will hear a song in a taxi and be like, stop, stop the car. Like, let's go back. What was that?”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.”
“It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.”
“That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.”
“There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.”

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