If you are a genius, you’ll make your own rules, but if not – and the odds are against it – go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper – write. – J. B. Priestley
One repressive state after another has had to face the dilemma of wanting abundant Internet for economic advancement, while ruing the ways in which its citizens can become empowered to express themselves fearlessly. – Jonathan Zittrain
I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it. – J. Cole
I feel like, with most filmmakers of my generation, I like the over-the-top stuff. I like to be wacky and really in your face. – James Wan
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one’s cards face up on the table? – Jacques Lacan
Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law. – Iris Chang
I don’t know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920. – James McAvoy
Capping the size of American banks won’t eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won’t face the same restrictions. – Jamie Dimon
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. – Iris Murdoch
I think the good thing about my face is it has always been expressive. With Botox that goes – not what you want as an actress. – Jane Seymour
When I face the media, maybe I don’t feel it now, here with you, because it’s a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. – Jose Mourinho
Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. – John Lydon
It’s a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I’m aware of designers wagging their tails in my face. – Jonathan Ive
As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they’re the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid’s face is the best thing. – James McAvoy
I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face. – Johnny Depp
I’ve been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by. – Andre Agassi
My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic – and I think psychotic – way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know. – James Earl Jones
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism. – bell hooks
Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun. – James Mattis
In Hollywood, you can’t say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you. It’s like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I’m so not that. I never was that; I’ll never be that. That is part of the business that I don’t like. – Chloe Sevigny
As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does. – Ira Sachs
You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it’s not the same when you’ve got to face some guy with a bat in his hand. – Chili Davis