Grimace Quotes

• Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Happiness, Laughter, Philosophical

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Success, Lying

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• I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.

  Adam Baldwin

  Party, Laughing, Fans

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• The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

  Ezra Pound

  Grace, Age, Modern

  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley "E. P. Ode Pour l'Election de Son Sepulchre" l. 21 (1920)

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• It's impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun.

  Thom Yorke

  Sun, Impossible, Being Me

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• In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For example a smile can mean you're amused, happy, grateful, or satisfied. You can smile to comfort someone. You can smile because you're content or because you're in love. A grimace or a grin look similar to a smile, but they mean entirely different things. Imagine trying to teach someone how to smile. Imagine trying to describe what different smiles mean and when, precisely, to use them in conversation. It's harder than learning to walk.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Grateful, Mean, Simple

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• Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Character, Portraits, Portraiture

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

  Katherine Applegate

  Hate, Eye, Faces

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• One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Mouths, Telling The Truth

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.

  Joss Whedon

  Humanity, News, Enough

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• Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

  Yehuda Berg

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 07, 2016

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• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  Olivia Wilde

  Creepy, Barbie, Looks

  "Olivia Wilde Tells Us Her Dos and Don'ts of Turning 30". www.glamour.com. August 5, 2013.

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• Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs

  Jerome Stern

  Buttons, Legs, Napkins

  Jerome Stern (2011). “Making Shapely Fiction”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I had seen faces in photographs I might have found beautiful had I known even vaguely in what beauty was supposed to consist. And my father's face, on his death-bolster, had seemed to hint at some form of aesthetics relevant to man. But the faces of the living, all grimace and flush, can they be described as objects?

  Samuel Beckett

  Beautiful, Father, Men

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989”, p.55, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Maturity, Men, Phrases

  Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.68, Yale University Press

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• It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard.

  Jane Hirshfield

  People, Grace, Saving

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• She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Eye, Steel

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Emily Dickinson: Everyman's Poetry”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish loves: The decorative manias we obey Die in grimaces round us every day, Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice Which utters an absurd command - Rejoice.

  W. H. Auden

  Selfish, Stupid, Voice

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• I glanced, wide eyed, from Edward's grimace to Jacob's sneer.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Jacob, Wide, Sneer

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• I'm not the person I once was. I have Thorn now, and... I'm not fighting for myself anymore....It makes a difference....I used to think you were a fool to keep risking your life as you have...I know better now. I understand...why. I understand...' His [Murtagh] eyes widened and his grimace relaxed, as if his pain was forgotten, and an inner light seemed to illuminate his features. 'I understand-we understand.

  Christopher Paolini

  Pain, Eye, Fighting

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• Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Angel, Zidane, Serial Killer

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• You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.

  Suzanne Collins

  Feelings, Looks, Alive

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.27, Scholastic Inc.

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• Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.

  Georgette Heyer

  One Day, Curls, Lips

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• Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train,
  Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign
  Who shifts and changes all things but his shape,
  And would degrade her vot'ry to an ape,
  The fruitful parent of abuse and wrong,
  Holds a usurp'd dominion o'er his tongue,
  There sits and prompts him with his own disgrace,
  Prescribes the theme, the tone, and the grimace,
  And when accomplish'd in her wayward school,
  Calls gentleman whom she has made a fool.

  William Cowper

  Fashion, Hurt, School

  William Cowper (1837). “Poems; to which is prefixed a memoir of the author by J. M'Diarmid”, p.217

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• I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.

  Ben Stein

  Stars, Real, Men

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