Eyebrows Quotes - Page 9

• Poseidon raised his eyebrows as they shook hands. “Blowfish, did you say?” "Ah, no. Blofis, actually.” "Oh, I see,” Poseidon said. “A shame. I quite like blowfish. I am Poseidon.” "Poseidon? That’s an interesting name.” "Yes, I like it. I’ve gone by other names, but I do prefer Poseidon.” "Like the god of the sea.” "Very much like that, yes.

  Rick Riordan

  Hands, Sea, Names

  "Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, books.google.ru. March 5, 2009.

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• Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

  J. K. Rowling

  Party, Should, Mines

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• The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

  Daniel Yergin

  Relationship, Russia, Oil

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• I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

  Olivia Wilde

  Years, Trying, Abandoned

  "Face Time - Olivia Wilde". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

  Henry L. Stimson

  War, Victory, Bombs

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• The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

  Stendhal

  Distance, Years, Fifty

  Stendhal “The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century”, Curated Classics

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• Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

  Queen Latifah

  Real, War, Kids

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• The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

  George F. Kennan

  Want, Best Things, Can Do

  "U.S.-Soviet Relations, A History" by John Corry, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1984.

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• I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

  Garry Kasparov

  Thinking, Democracy, Today

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• The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

  Alexander Haig

  Military, Political, Would Be

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• If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

  Catherine the Great

  Writing, Ifs

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• We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Real, Mirrors, Roles

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• I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

  Harper Lee

  Father, Reading, Names

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Angel, Faces, Pencils

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• I cross my arms. "It was a two minute conversation." "I don't think a smaller time frame makes it less unwise." He furrows his eyebrows and touches the corner of my bruised eye with his fingertips. My head jerks back, but he doesn't take his hand away. Instead he sighs. "You know, if you could just learn to attack first, you might do better." "Attack first?" I say. "How will that help?" "You're fast. If you can get a few good hits in before they know what's going on, you could win." He shrugs, and his hand falls.

  Veronica Roth

  Fall, Eye, Winning

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• Hellooo.” I held out my arm. “An amethyst woman with blue hair is telling you this.” She reached out and scraped her short nails over my arm. I snatched my arm back. “Ow.” Not body makeup.” She frowned and peered at the roots of my hair. “A good die-job or you’ve really got blue hair.” For now,” I said. “I’m half Drow.” She raised an eyebrow. Dark Elves.” Uh-huhhhh.” During the day I look normal, like you.” With an amused look she held up her arm, showing her dark, golden skin. “You’re Kenyan and Puerto Rican?

  Cheyenne McCray

  Jobs, Dark, Makeup

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• All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidst the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fate, Past, Journey

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• Malfoy glanced around. Harry knew he was checking for signs of teachers. Then he looked back at Harry and said in a low voice, "You're dead, Potter." Harry raised his eyebrows. "Funny," he said, "you'd think I'd have stopped walking around.

  J. K. Rowling

  Teacher, Thinking, Voice

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• Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot." "Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?

  Cassandra Clare

  Humor, Kissing, Long

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron's raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying "oh you know what I mean - Goyle's Potion looked like bogies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Sight, Looks

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.51, Pottermore

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• Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?

  Rick Riordan

  Punishment, Clothes, Soul

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• Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. "I'll kill you." I drew the firestar and pointed it at him. "I don't think so." "She is pack now," Sylvie said. "You fight one of us, and you fight all of us." Edward raised his eyebrows at me. "What is going on, Anita?" "I think I've been adopted," I said.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Fighting, Thinking, Kicking

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.146, Penguin

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• It looks as if I was thinking what you were thinking." "Actually, you weren't. I was really thinking I needed to ask you a question." "What was that?" "Do you think we should ask Goatee Guy how to find the caterer?" I smiled at him innocently as his eyebrows pratically met above his nose. "I am never going to share my pet peeves with you again."

  Jennifer Rardin

  Thinking, Guy, Pet

  Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Another One Bites The Dust: Book two in the Jaz Parks sequence”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

  Philip Pullman

  Fate, Rage, Raises

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

  Paul Erdos

  Television, American Education

  "Comic Sections: The Book of Mathematical Jokes, Humour, Wit, and Wisdom". Book by Des MacHale, 1993.

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