Mona Lisa's Smile Quotes

#1. I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

Alan Bradley

#2. Nature had seemed to be closing in on us for a kill, when she suddenly turned her face away and smiled. It was a Mona Lisa smile, the meaning of which no one could figure out.

Richard Preston

#3. If it's fiction, then it better be true.

Sherman Alexie

#4. Don't you see? This was to be ours together, the successes and the failures ... All of this? he said, and couldn't help a smile. Yes, all of this. Then she too smiled.

Eowyn Ivey

#5. When an employee truly understands the meaning of his work and gets recognition for his efforts he performs the best.

Abhishek Ratna

#6. Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, "Well, isn't she full of herself," smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.

Anne Lamott

#7. This is the PART we play in helpful communication. PART means that we are present, attune, resonate, and create trust.

Daniel J. Siegel

#8. Learn to celebrate all of life's victories even the ones no one notices

Latrea Wyche

#9. Is not gone, you're in the flatness of the deadlands. Time doesn't stop. You watch it move but you are still, like a painting with a Mona Lisa smile.

Marlon James

#10. Billy's smile as he came out of the shrubbery was at least as peculiar as Mona Lisa's, for he was simultaneously on foot in Germany in 1944 and riding his Cadillac in 1967.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Ron Reagan

#12. There is no one label that could be attached to me that would be thought adequate.

Robert Robinson

#13. I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I'm always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren't always in a script.

Johnny Crawford

#14. Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas - that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good heredity and conditioned so as to be capable (within limits) of making a free choice and assuming responsibilities. Imagine it!

Aldous Huxley

#15. My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood
like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.

David Lynch

#16. A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

Antonio Porchia

#17. As Samantha wrapped the ornament in paper, and placed it in a bag, Mrs. Ryan said, "Hearts are like that spun glass, beautiful and fragile, and easily broken." With a Mona Lisa smile, she turned and left the store.

Tamara Hoffa

#18. I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.

Camila Alves

#19. What he'd seen before, in those ages-ago times, the days before the people had been taught by the gods how to draw the metals from the ground and cut and grind the stone to shelter themselves, was contained in the goat god's nearly perpetual Mona Lisa smile.

Toneye Eyenot

#20. If we have a very big problem to deal with, it is the problem of realism, because we are weaker than our emotions.

Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

#21. Graff smiled a little Mona Lisa smile, if Mona Lisa had been a pudgy colonel.

Orson Scott Card

#22. The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake;

W. H. Auden