Cheeks Quotes - Page 13

• No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

  Rebecca West

  Writing, Vitality, Fiction

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• Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
  So I make an idle boast;
  Jesus of the twice-turned cheek
  Lamb of God, although I speak
  With my mouth thus, in my heart
  Do I play a double part.

  Countee Cullen

  Jesus, Father, Heart

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.66, Library of America

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• Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Change, Gratitude, Fickle

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• I tell ya, my wife was never nice. On our first date, I asked her if I could give her a goodnight kiss on the cheek - she bent over!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Nice, Kissing, Giving

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• Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

  John Cowper Powys

  Family, Mother, Children

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• I can never see fashion models,
  lean angular cheeks, strutting hips
  and blooming hair, without thinking of
  the skulls at the catacombs in Lima, Peru.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Fashion, Thinking, Hair

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.93, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That's my personality as well.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Thinking, People, Personality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, making a lot of dramas on one side it's a different sort of challenge, and on the other, it's not a challenge at all, meaning that my goal is to try and bring the realism and acting you might find in a straight drama with the intentions and conflict, where it doesn't feel tongue-in-cheek, but rather committed and real.

  James Mangold

  Drama, Real, Goal

  Source: collider.com

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• God says, Turn the other cheek. So there's no way I could play in a man's game.

  Dwight Howard

  Men, Games, Play

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think a lot of longevity, especially as a performer, depends on kind of what your commodity is. If your commodity is your cuteness and your chubby cheeks and your big gap between your teeth, if that's what your greatest asset is, of course that fails or that changes, you know, that goes away. Of course that fades.

  Fred Savage

  Thinking, Gaps, Teeth

  "Why Fred Savage put directing on hold to star in ‘The Grinder’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 28, 2015.

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• I think the show has so many wonderful memories connected to it for lots of people. When fans come to see me at the Andy Griffith Museum they get so emotional. Some of them cry, lots of them hug me and some want a kiss on the cheek.

  Betty Lynn

  Memories, Kissing, Emotional

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• When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant when he offered us to turn our other cheek to our enemies. Compromise means, try to meet the other somewhere half-way. And, this can only happen if the other is willing to go half-way in order to meet you. That is the very strict line between compromise and capitulation.

  Amos Oz

  Jesus, Mean, Order

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• When I see a face, I see a face in general and I see you are curious, I see the curiosity but I don't not look after a dermatological report of your cheeks, and that's what you see when you're too high-resolution. And now desperately in post-production, in color grading, they are trying to wipe out the precision of the dermatological report.

  Werner Herzog

  Color, Curiosity, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning the cheek and suffering peacefully for 400 years in a land of bondage, under the most cruel, inhuman and wicked slavemaster that any people have ever been under, he is doing those people an injustice, and he's a traitor to his own people.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

  Malcolm X

  Teaching, Men, White Man

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• The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom; you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality.

  Malcolm X

  Baby, War, Men

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The scene [in The Hangover] where the tiger actually pops up behind us, that's actually a Jim Henson tiger puppet. The Jim Henson Company actually supplied that tiger. And it's really cool. Its entire face moves. It has like all these little motors in its eyebrows and cheeks and mouth. It was amazing.

  Ed Helms

  Moving, Hangover, Eyebrows

  Source: movies.about.com

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• Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very unpopular financiers on the other - and he wouldn't come out punching, name names, or go for the jugular. It was as if while getting mugged by guys with brass knuckles, he turned the other cheek. He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women's rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.

  Bill Moyers

  Writing, Fate, Doors

  Source: progressive.org

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• Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story - because there's an inherent voice you're trying to copy (and often to satirize).

  Alexander Weinstein

  Voice, Trying, Tongue

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• If I walk in the house, and I greet my wife, and I give her a hug, kiss her on the cheek, and I say to her, "Honey, how'd your day go," and I listed to how her day went. If I say, "Is there anything I can do to help you," and she tells me, "Honey, if you could peel the potatoes," or whatever, I have influenced my wife in a very positive way.

  Gary Chapman

  Kissing, Giving, Wife

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• There's actually an article in the Washington Post, I don't know whether it's tongue in cheek or not, which said the criterion for being on the list of banned states is that [Donald] Trump doesn't have business interests there.

  Noam Chomsky

  Tongue, Lists, Criteria

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.

  Jean Houston

  Baby, Long, Long Time

  "Soul Speaking and Truth Telling: A Conversation with Jean Houston". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 23, 2013.

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• I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic involvement with Burroughs was entirely due to my tutor at Oxford, Peter Conrad. I was discussing with him the idea of staying on to do graduate work and when I tossed the name of Burroughs into the conversation - well, he let it fall loudly onto the floor, and proceeded to cross himself as if warding off an evil spirit. Since I was very ambivalent about an academic career in any case, that decided it for me.

  Oliver Harris

  Book, Fall, Names

  Source: bigother.com

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• I think it's absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.

  Boris Johnson

  Thinking, Sides, Organisation

  "EU debate: Boris Johnson says Brexit will be 'Britain's independence day' as Ruth Davidson attacks 'lies' of Leave campaign in front of 6,000-strong Wembley audience". BBC One's debate at Wembley Arena, London, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

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• I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, White, Rose

  William Shakespeare (2001). “As You Like It”, p.209, Classic Books Company

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