Quotes About Painted Faces

#1. The door swung open and three pint-sized...hookers...stared up at him, their glitter-glossed smiles slowly disappearing from their over painted faces.

Samanthe Beck

#2. Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

Oscar Wilde

#3. Painted faces laughed. It was like a mad carnival where everyone was oblivious, lost in the bliss of chaos, a throng unaware of a bomb planted beneath the
floorboards.

Kelly Creagh

#4. I do not like these painted faces that look all alike; and I think women are foolish to dull their expression and obscure their personality with powder, rouge, and lipstick.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun.

Julia De Burgos

#6. Had I known you were going to pull a pretty ribbon out of your sleeve like some two-bit magician, tie me up with it, and indulge your mental torture fetish in your basement, I would've shot you. Many times."
"Two-bit magician?"
"Men like you enjoy being flattered.

Ilona Andrews

#7. Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.

Kazimir Malevich

#8. Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.

Anthony Kiedis

#9. A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life ... but a painted surface lives.

Kazimir Malevich

#10. What makes people is not bone structure and eye color, but the force of their personalities. the years of experience painted on their faces.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#11. When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'

Franz Wright

#12. When the beer came, I dipped a finger in it and wet down each corner of the paper napkin to anchor it, so it would not come up with the mug each time and make me appear ridiculous. I

Charles Portis

#13. I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face!

Bobbi Brown

#14. I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

Stanley Bing

#15. Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.

William Butler Yeats

#16. Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.

Stephen Sondheim

#17. Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.

Vinod Khosla

#18. My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music.

Nikki Sixx

#19. I love how warm and soft you are. All I ever want to do is touch you, but sometimes it feels like not touching you is even more of a turn on.

L. H. Cosway

#20. You can never have too many black pumps. Never!

Andre Leon Talley

#21. I'll tell you, the screws' faces painted an even greater picture than my words can describe. We kept emptying our pots in the hall for two weeks before the screws started emptying our piss pots for us, but this didn't last too long after we started calling them bellhops.

Stephen Richards

#22. Nora, your self-pity monitor is beeping, it's telling me you're feeling sorry for yourself over something trivial and need to get a life.

L. H. Cosway

#23. But I will write in spite of everything, absolutely; it is my struggle for self-preservation.

Franz Kafka

#24. Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'

Charles R. Schwab

#25. One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.

Ellen Hopkins

#26. We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.

Greg Proops

#27. You have a destination that doesn't include acting like this moment isn't inhabitable, hasn't happened before, and the before isn't part of the now as the night darkens and the time shortens between where we are now and where we are going.

Claudia Rankine