Quotes About Ugly Smiles

#1. It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to ... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.

Brett Favre

#2. I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

Om Puri

#3. The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.

Eric Hoffer

#4. He smiles out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he can see Oz. As if he can really, truly, see the beauty that's there.

Jennifer Niven

#5. Being influential is not the mark of a great book.

Mortimer Adler

#6. It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.

Eleanor Farjeon

#7. The harpy smiles. A harpy's smile is an ugly thing, even seen edge-on. The harpy says, You do not have the power to make me not alone, Desiree.

Elizabeth Bear

#8. Calm down. Deep breaths. Go to your happy place. Oh, wait. I don't have one.

Richard Kadrey

#9. She had a slow, deliberate way of walking
as if she had once been startled into precipitate action and had regretted it."
"A Place in the Country

Shirley Hazzard

#10. I should have imagined how ugly life could be without you, how painful without your love and how lonely without your smiles.

M.F. Moonzajer

#11. Monsters were supposed to be scary and ugly. They weren't supposed to hide behind friendly smiles and well-trimmed hair. Goodness, twisted as it might be, was not meant to be locked away in an icy heart and anxious exterior.

Kerri Maniscalco

#12. It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.

Alan Keyes

#13. by listening with full attention, by acknowledging his feelings with a word, by giving a name to his feelings, and by granting him his wishes in fantasy.

Adele Faber

#14. Perfection doesn't exist," I reply. "It's a mask people wear to conceal their ugly truths. Never trust someone who only ever smiles at you.

J.M. Darhower

#15. Bitter and Frail, young and weak.
Smiles are useless, talk is cheap,
Give thou venom, fangs like slime,
Ugly freak for all of time.
An empty gift just from me,
Give it now, so mote it be!

Keisha Keenleyside