Smile Quotes

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Nobody dast blame this man. Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back — that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow." Her voice held a smile. "So am I

I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.

Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. What is the most beautiful place you've ever seen? Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. Any place, he said huskily, where you are.

Judith McNaught

I thought the Invalids were beasts; I thought they would rip me apart. But these people saved me, and gave me the softest place to sleep, and nursed me back to health, and haven't asked for anything in return. The animals are on the other side of the fence: monsters wearing uniforms. They speak softly, and tell lies, and smile as they're slitting your throat.

The great right of migration and the great wisdom of incorporating foreign elements into our body politic, are founded not upon any genealogical or ethnological theory, however learned, but upon the broad fact of a common nature. Man is man the world over. This fact is affirmed and admitted in any effort to deny it. The sentiments we exhibit, whether love or hate, confidence or fear, respect or contempt, will always imply a like humanity. A smile or a tear has no nationality. Joy and sorrow speak alike in all nations, and they above all the confusion of tongues proclaim the brotherhood of man.

Frederick Douglass

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

All his life Toselli's smile had been stretched across his rage, like a tight-rope spanning a chasm.

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.

Francis Henry Taylor

The first thing Bohr said to me was that it would only then be profitable to work with him if I understood that he was a dilettante. The only way I knew to react to this unexpected statement was with a polite smile of disbelief. But evidently Bohr was serious. He explained how he had to approach every new question from a starting point of total ignorance. It is perhaps better to say that Bohr's strength lay in his formidable intuition and insight rather than erudition.

She set an attentive smile on her face, like a sentinel, behind which she could cultivate her own thoughts.

His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.

Becca Fitzpatrick

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

I am anti-entropy. My work is foursquare for chaos. I spend my life personally, and my work professionally, keeping the soup boiling. Gadfly is what they call you when you are no longer dangerous; I much prefer troublemaker, malcontent, desperado. I see myself as a combination of Zorro and Jiminy Cricket. My stories go out from here and raise hell. From time to time some denigrator or critic with umbrage will say of my work, "He only wrote that to shock." I smile and nod. Precisely.

Where did you go? Down below. Ugh, she said. I've heard they're little better than animals. Funny. I thought the same thing about most Topsiders I encountered. Tegan touched my hand in silent sympathy, and I set my jaw.... I stepped forward and pasted on a false smile. We were in her home, after all. The least I could do was be polite. I'm Deuce, animal from the underground.

No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

Chuck Palahniuk

London Calling - Yes, I was there, too,
And you know what they said? Well some of it was true.
London Calling at the top of the dial…
And after all this, won't you give me a smile?

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.

It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.

Jeff Lindsay (writer)

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me.

Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile
Is mirrored on my dreams,
Like evening's sunset-girded isle
Upon her shadowed streams:
And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats,
Like melody of spring-bird, notes;
When the blue halcyon gently laves
His plumage in the flashing waves.

Park Benjamin, Sr.

Came to... see you. But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye. Don't know why you... say good-bye. I say... hello. Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. God you're a cheeseball. But seriously, R—

A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.