Top 100 Face Like A Sayings
#1. I did it for you. I took in a pint of bourbon with me. She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term, I'll eat my spare tire, rim and all.
Raymond Chandler
#2. But the young sapper was already on his back, the rifle aimed, his eye almost brushing the beards of Noah and Abraham and the variety of demons until he reached the great face and was stilled by it, the face like a spear, wise, unforgiving.
Michael Ondaatje
#3. My smile did not seem to be working. I used to have a good one. Now I get the feeling people regard it as something I just drop over my face, like a page on a flip chart.
Walter Walker
#4. he pretty much slipped his ass over my face like a Halloween mask. I had never been so happy in my life.
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John Inman
#5. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.
Charlie Brooker
#6. I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
#7. He struggled wildly and got one hand free just as a fist looped down into his face like a runaway moon.
Stephen King
#8. Everybody remembers Robbie Williams said I had a face like a satellite dish.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#9. Sir Edward Grey was a thin man with a face like a skull. He disliked foreigners and almost never traveled abroad: in British eyes, that made him the perfect foreign secretary. "Thank
Ken Follett
#10. My safe, safe psychosis is broken.
It was hard.
It was made of stone.
It covered my face like a mask.
But it has cracked.
Anne Sexton
#11. It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?
Jean Rhys
#12. There was a sadness just beneath the surface of his pleasant expression. It drifted across his face like a ghost moving through the vacant rooms of an empty house.
M. Leighton
#13. To add to the effect, he hadn't shaved in a day or two, and a shadow of dark blond fuzz covered the bottom half of his face like a smile.
Kiera Cass
#15. He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.
Edith Wharton
#16. She felt just like that girl in that book with the letter A on her chest. Only her A signified Alone. She was an outcast, cast out by her own choices, an outsider with a pretty face. Like a rose, she may have been beautiful to look at, but almost everyone only knew the thorny side.
Victoria Kahler
#17. Chester Stone said nothing. Just stood up and threaded his way by all the furniture and over to the door. Through the reception area and into the corridor and into the elevator. Down eighty-eight floors and back outside, where the bright morning sun hit him in the face like a blow.
Lee Child
#18. I knew a girl so ugly, she had a face like a saint-a Saint Bernard!
Rodney Dangerfield
#19. A thin woman about fifty with a face like a silver hatchet.
Ross Macdonald
#20. Poverty is a giant, it uses your face like a mop to wipe away the world's garbage.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#21. There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.
Ray Bradbury
#22. Nova studied his face like a cat on a mouse hole, waiting for the slightest movement to give way and the unseen to be revealed. But Chael's face was like a rock, void of movement, void of clues.
Brittney Joy
#23. But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool, soaked through with the sweet chloroform of utter sadness. - Ward 9
Will Self
#25. Guy Carpenter frowned and came into the drawing room through the window. He had a long face like a horse, he was pale and looked rather supercilious. His manner was pompous. Hercule Poirot found him unattractive.
Agatha Christie
#26. And had a face like a bulldog licking vinegar off a thistle ...
Terry Pratchett
#27. She is a small woman with a face like a book mite; she is not without opinions.
Lisa Koger
#28. The road was icy as it was, but Rudy put on the extra coat, barely able to contain a grin. It ran across his face like a skid.
Markus Zusak
#29. The last condescended from Academy spires Pretended at life with a cold, dead heart Face like a crypt, from a family of liars Quietly, quietly played . . . her . . . part. - Children's nursery rhyme
K.D. Castner
#30. I didn't dare look at Conrad. I was afraid my love for him and my need for him to say yes would be written on my face like a poem.
Jenny Han
#31. with a face like a fish pressed to glass; eyes so large they appear distorted. "Is
Lauren Oliver
#32. He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.
William Faulkner
#33. How can you be in love with someone for forever and not be willing to take a chance when it finally hits you in the face like a linebacker?
Miranda Kenneally
#34. She had a face like a slapped arse and an arse like a bag of Doritos
Lisa McInerney
#35. Please," Alec said, pulling out his stele. "I can read your face like a very open, very pornographic book. I wish I couldn't.
Cassandra Clare
#36. Mr. Pappadakis smells like Just for Men peroxide dye and eucalyptus foot unguents. He has a face like a catcher's mitt. The whole thing puckers inward, drooping with the memory of some dropped fly ball.
Karen Russell
#37. I know I have a face like a model. But I'm actually just a goofy drama nerd underneath.
James Marsden
#38. After a moment he reached out and brushed the unruly red hair back from his face, like a mother would with a sleeping child. Then he began to sing softly, the tune lilting and strange, almost a lullaby:
Patrick Rothfuss
#39. Tumblr has a big community of bears and bear chasers. All my favorites on Tumblr and all the fan mail I get is all like, "We want to tickle you! What size shoe are you?" They're all like really big, heavyset, bearded guys who are like, "I want to ride your face like a motorcycle!"
Jon Gabrus
#40. Dane picked up on the second ring. "How's Operation Baby Rescue going?"
"I've rescued the baby. Now I'd like someone to rescue me."
"Miss Independent never needs to be rescued."
I felt the hint of a genuine smile appear on my face, like a crack in the winter ice. "Oh, right. I forgot.
Lisa Kleypas
#41. Summers that slapped you in the face like a dog's tongue.
Lauren Oliver
#42. My eyes kept skipping back to her, drawn to her face like a lone candle flame in the dark
Alexandra Bracken
#43. I don't really read the reviews - but I remember one I read a long time ago that said I had a face like a potato.
Bill Murray
#45. I would describe myself like a landscape I've studied at length, in detail; like a word I'm coming to understand; like a pitcher I pour from at mealtime; like my mother's face; like a ship that carried me when the waters raged.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#46. She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term I'll eat my spare tyre, rim and all.
Raymond Chandler
#47. I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?
Jeremy Paxman
#48. With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
M. C. Gainey
#49. If you could just see your face," she told me. "You look like a cat in a bathtub.
Patricia Briggs
#50. You keep doing that, and you'll find yourself mated quick enough."
"It's no' for me. I'm perfectly content just as I am."
Ryder made a face. "Are you insane? why say something like that and temp the cosmos?"
Laith watch him walk away, wondering if he had just drawn the interest of fate.
Donna Grant
#51. An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.
Michael Socha
#52. Whether you are from Minnesota, Wisconsin or any other Northern tier state, you are not going to like the reimbursement formula. The problem we face is that we wouldn't have that formula if a majority of the states didn't like it, and they have the majority of the votes.
Dave Obey
#53. I feel like, when I arrive at the hospital, I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back and I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat.
Kristen Bell
#54. Honestly, I really don't like acting. I don't enjoy it. What I do like is going to a movie theatre and seeing my face on a poster. I like seeing my name on a poster. That is cool.
Gabriel Iglesias
#55. Shall we go away whenever life looks like turning in the slightest uncanny, or not quite normal, or even rather painful and mortifying? No, surely not. Rather stay and look matters in the face, brave them out; perhaps precisely in so doing lies a lesson for us to learn.
Thomas Mann
#56. I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.
Scott Snyder
#57. He closes the door and turns around to face me with his hands behind his back. He studies me intensely, and it makes me squirm. "You know, you're not like I thought you'd be," he says, taking a step forward. "Yet, at the same time
Jessica Sorensen
#58. Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#59. The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.
Dennis Lehane
#60. When you lose your face ... , it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.
Amy Tan
#61. A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.
John Waters
#62. I know what it's like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page
Rainbow Rowell
#63. Margaret had a face like the ass end of a gasoline truck and a body to match.
Stephen King
#64. Python is much more like a dog, loving you unconditionally, having a few key words that it understands, looking you with a sweet look on its face (), and waiting for you to say something it understands.
Charles Severance
#65. Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.
Elizabeth Pena
#66. My memories came back like a punch in the face. Only good.
Lee Davidson
#67. I kind of like to keep it very minimal. I get a lot of products sent to me, and I like to try them, but I end up just literally washing my face and putting on moisturizer and toner.
Bella Hadid
#68. Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.
Joan Caulfield
#69. Whispers of death crawled through her brain like insects swarming a feast. Murmurs of pain and torture sent shivers of dread down her spine. Gathering her courage, Alaina turned to face him.
"It all started with the attic . . .
Gina Salamon
#70. I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#71. How many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely ...
John Geddes
#72. He whipped out his sheet, then pulled it over himself and wrapped it tightly around his face like an old woman in a shawl.
'How do I look?'
'Like the ugliest shanky girl I've ever seen,' Minho responded. 'You better thank the gods above you were born a dude.'
'Thanks.
James Dashner
#74. Let's face it, I'm not winning a fight with anybody - unless it's against someone like Larry David.
Benny Blanco
#75. So they're looking for a new face, with a voice to go along. I can tell you right now that ain't my style. I don't do no sing alongs, with my freedom.
Tegan Quin
#76. Madonna has an incredible face. A face you would like to look at blown up 50 feet high!
Susan Seidelman
#77. He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.
Clement Clarke Moore
#78. The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.
Cesare Pavese
#79. Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.
Margaret Atwood
#80. My quote is that a guy name beastly theres a guy that has a wierd face and he loves her. so much and the women didn,t like him at all. then they get in love alot in the end.and then he gets his face normal.
Alex Flinn
#81. While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.
Leonard Maltin
#82. But I'd much rather face a dozen assassins like LaFleur any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings.
Jennifer Estep
#83. Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.
Andy Rooney
#84. Here and there, alone, reflecting, I'd bump up against what felt like a buffer zone between me and some vast reserve of grief, but its reinforcements were sturdy enough and its construction solid enough to prevent me from really ever smelling its air, feeling its wind on my face.
John Darnielle
#85. There she stood. Dark circles ringed her eyes. Her face was pale, almost snow-white. She probably hadn't slept, either. She was still wearing the same dress. Her hair looked like a bomb had gone off. She was beautiful.
Daniel Ehrenhaft
#86. Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face.
Jeremy Clarkson
#87. I remember a huge tiredness coming over me, a kind of lethargy in the face of the tangled mess before me. It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#88. Then Freddie was transformed into a moth. His old empty body fell forward face first into the water with a splash. Slicked back hair tied in a ponytail floated on the surface of the pool like a dead rodent on the sea as Freddie fluttered up towards a nearby streetlamp.
Stephen Livingston
#89. Billy was walking up the hall, buckling his belt. His tanned face was now sallow and wet with sweat. He says there's a bulge in my aorta. Like a bubble in a car tire. Only car tires don't yell when you poke em.
Stephen King
#90. New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
Sarah Palin
#91. Loneliness made or ruined a man. It frightened him so that he must either sing and build in the face of the dark, like a bird or a beaver, or hide from it like a beast in his den. There were perhaps always only the two ways to go, God or the jungle.
Elizabeth Goudge
#92. The smile kindles in his dark eyes before it reaches his mouth. With a wonder that actually steals my breath, I watch its genesis like a mini-sunrise lighting his whole face.
Ann Aguirre
#93. She rolled her eyes. "If it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name." " 'Magnanimous Holiness'? Oh, I like that one." A ghost of a smile appeared on her face, and Dorian looked down at the book.
Sarah J. Maas
#94. Hope is like a balloon. It seems like it swells up just so someone else can pop it in your face.
Betsy Schow
#95. I'd like to be in a female version of The Fugitive. Something where I don't have to be ripped up like an action star, but be a normal, healthy lady who is framed and on the run. I'd have to run from explosions and punch people in the face but not rappel down a building.
Jenny Slate
#96. Add to that six tables of cakes, ices, and punch bowls, a group of seven musicians playing the violin, three hundred candles, and who knew how many courtiers, and the result was a room that made Rachelle feel like she was being punched in the face just by looking at it.
Rosamund Hodge
#98. I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.
Anthony Liccione
#99. When I came in this morning, I'd had a plan. I was going to walk in there, throw that receipt in his pretty little face, and tell him to shove it. But then he'd looked so goddamn sexy in that charcoal Prada suit, and his hair stuck up like a neon sign screaming, Do Me.
Christina Lauren
#100. Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.
Sylvia Plath
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