Charles Dickens Quotes

She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

I have no human feelings.

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

The face is the soul of the body.

Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul,' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?

Softness of smile indicates softness of character.

God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her.

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

Never say never - and I certainly don't judge anyone who does it. But most of the characters I play are going through some kind of emotional turmoil, so my job requires me to have expression. If my face was froze, what right do I have to play that part? All the women who haven't done anything to their faces are still able to play great roles. And some of the ones who have done something have messed it up - they look freakish. Anyway, for me it's about playing women with rich lives - and the longer the life, the deeper the wrinkles.

It's not that hard to climb a pole. All you need are powerful thighs and an empty soul.

Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.

Luke indicated Simon and Clary with a wave of his hand. 'I brought some people to see you.' Jace's eyes moved to them. They were as blanked as if the had been painted. 'Unfortunately, ' he said, 'I only had the one pencil.

when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light of a room, the minute of the day. Mouths reveal insecurity or smugness or any other point on the spectrum of character. For him they are the most intricate aspect of faces. He's never sure what an eye reveals. but he can read how mouths darken into callousness, suggest tenderness. One can often misjudge an eye from its reaction to a simple beam of sunlight.

What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!

In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.

He didn't ask what I was thinking, which was out of character for him. I guessed that meant that he was just as nervous as I suddenly was.

Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.

I was so sensitive and touchy in a way that my character would never be. I was so protective and defensive of young girls, and sex in general.

You can find me in the frozen mood section.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.