- Nov 07, 2020
Lips Quotes
On speech, restraint, and quiet expression.
A simple habit like moving the lips while reading becomes a small detail worth noticing here, alongside worry over how an instrument might change their shape. These lines connect physical detail to Expression.
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natto, Japanese ferment bean paste, will never cross my lips again. Spam Musubi, on the other hand, is something I love. I used to have a roommate of Vietnamese descent, and he would eat it all the time. It looked gross, but I finally had it - wrapped in seaweed and rice - it was terrific.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
- Gas Chambers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
- Filler
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- Nov 07, 2020
To clarify, I haven't had surgery. Surgery is 'going under the knife,' breaking bones, adding stuff in. I simply just had cosmetic enhancement: it's just a little bit of filler which I put a little bit in my cheeks and in my lips.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very private person who grew up with a strict German mother who believed 'loose lips sink ships.'
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural, blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a reaction to when I was growing up, and women were supposed to be all blonde hair, gold suntan, and pink lips. It was a real black-and-white opposite of what was considered attractive. I was kicking against something I found really oppressive.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person's back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.
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- Nov 07, 2020