Cheeks Quotes - Page 28

• The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.

  Chuck Close

  Decision, Important, Noses

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• I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.

  Lord Byron

  Echoes, World, Knees

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 113

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• Do I dazzle you?" I voiced my curiosity impulsively, and then the words were out, and it was too late to recall them. But before I had time to too deeply regret speaking the words aloud, she answered "Frequently." And her cheeks took on a faint pink glow. I dazzled her. My silent heart swelled with a hope more intense than I could ever remember having felt before.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Regret, Heart, Curiosity

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• Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.

  James Schuyler

  Fall, Eye, Dark

  James Schuyler (1969). “Freely Espousing: Poems”

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• Regret is an uneven hand,
  a rough palm at the cheek — tender
  and calloused.

  Lorna Dee Cervantes

  Regret, Hands, Rough

  Lorna Dee Cervantes (2013). “Sueno”, p.3, Wings Press

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• Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display its characteristic physiognomy: skeletal hands, sharpened noses, tight-drawn cheek bones, the bared teeth of a rictus smile and the fixed, narrowed gaze of men in a state of controlled fear.

  John Keegan

  Stress, Fighting, Successful

  John Keegan (1999). “The First World War”, Knopf

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• Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

  William Laud

  Ambition, Men, Names

  "Old England's Worthies". Book by C. Cox, p. 120, 1847.

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• A Satanist practices the motto, "If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!" Let no wrong go unredressed.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Men, Practice, Motto

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the left.' 'If anyone takes your coat, let him have your cloak also. Rejoice always.' 'Count it sheer joy when you meet various temptations' etc.). The most ignorant, poor creature cannot honestly deny being able to understand God's requirements. But it is tough on the flesh to will to understand it and to then act accordingly. It is not a question of interpretation, but action.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Giving, Joy

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• The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be.

  Max Lucado

  Dust, Humanity, Reminding

  Max Lucado (2011). “One Incredible Savior: Celebrating the Majesty of the Manger”, p.68, Harper Collins

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• If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.

  George Orwell

  Blow, Doe, Complaining

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.330, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

  Jan Morris

  Hands, Oysters, Cities

  Jan Morris (2008). “Venice”, p.167, Faber & Faber

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• I was raised to stand up for myself, if I feel I'm in the right. Maybe it would have been best if I'd just gone home with my swollen cheek.

  Shannen Doherty

  Home, Gone, Raised

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• I would still have old ladies come up to me after the show and pat me on the cheek after I had said all this vulgar stuff. They would be like, 'Oh you're a silly boy - we know you're just playing.

  Dane Cook

  Silly, Boys, Would Be

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• The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

  Charles Lamb

  Kings, Boys, Law

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics

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• Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.

  Maya Angelou

  Kissing, Sick, Action

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2013

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• Hate your enemy with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Hate, Heart, Men

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.

  Robin Williams

  Men, White Man, Bigs

  "Fictional character: Bob Munro". "RV", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• People sometimes focus on the red button hot topic issues and I'm, like, you know, who cares about priestly celibacy? I'm thinking about how am I forgiving my enemies? How am I turning the other cheek? How am I loving my neighbor as myself? To me that's 10,000 times more difficult than to say should priests be married or not be married? I'm, like, I think we're wasting all out energies on the wrong thing. Let's work on the most difficult stuff.

  Lino Rulli

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.

  Angela Elwell Hunt

  Sweet, Revenge, Knights

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• When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.

  Tess Gallagher

  Hug, Buttons, Connections

  Tess Gallagher (1984). “Willingly: Poems”

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• She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, button nose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough sort of face you can't ignore. Still, the whole package isn't so bad. For all I know maybe she's not so wild about her own looks, but she seems comfortable with who she is, and that's the important thing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Balance, Important, Together

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• Finally he turned his head toward her face and brushed a kiss over her cheek. " love you and I believe with all my heart that you love me as well. Why can’t you say it, Hero?"

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Believe, Love You, Hero

  "Notorious Pleasures". Book by Elizabeth Hoyt, 2011.

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• Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Tree, Caves, Tables

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• Wenna followed us out. "You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again," she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. "You'll come back?" "Of course," Goodwin said. "But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the pink.

  Tamora Pierce

  Color, Done, Spirit

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper #2”, p.218, Random House Books for Young Readers

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