Keith Allen

It must have been horrible for my parents to see me go from public school to comprehensive to detention centre to borstal. I was busy ploughing my own furrow, but I must have been a terrible worry to them, and for that I am sorry.

Welsh Actor

Julia Davis

I do think, with people in comedy, you can have your time, as it were, and then you don't realise that it might have gone. I hope it hasn't for me. I think what I do is, I just... I just try to plough my own furrow, in a way.

English Comedian

John Cooper Clarke

At the beginning, there was no chance I'd get published so I thought I'd give it a go live. I had to perform in rock band places and working men's clubs, where you wouldn't expect to find poetry. I ploughed a lonely furrow.

English Poet

Jim Crace

As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.

English Writer

Matthew Stewart

During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.

American Philosopher

Amy Heckerling

When I was 20, I had these furrowed lines between my brows because I was always angry. And I was 20. I don't think that was a mark of age; it was just my personality.

American Director

Louis Agassiz

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.

Swiss Scientist

Rana el Kaliouby

A brow furrow is a very important indicator of confusion or concentration, and it can be a negative facial expression.

Egyptian Scientist

Herman Melville

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

American Novelist

Jean Henri Fabre

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

French Author

Often used to describe the act of preparing soil for planting.

Farming Context

Refers to a visible, often straight indentation in a surface.

Physical Mark

Can indicate a person's emotional state, like worry or concentration.

Sign of Emotion

Often associated with aging due to repetitive facial expressions.

Aging Indicator

Used to describe the process of creating grooves in soil for crops.

Agricultural Action

Implies the action required to prepare the land for a specific purpose.

Land Preparation

Shows someone is thinking hard or concentrating.

Expression of Thought

The act is temporary and changes with emotions or actions.

Non-Permanent State

 lots of fat and you can use that fat during the winter but if you're tiny you can't do that so the chipmunk has have another strategy and what it does is it furrows underground and then spends a month or so before the winter comes furiously frantically collecting acorns now collecting acorns for a little creature

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 And that is where you then look at the reality of all the beings you can think of. And you look at them, and you see how they are. And you realize how unhappy they are actually, mostly, most of the time. You see that furrowed brow in people. And then you realize they don't even have compassion on themselves.

Robert Thurman:...

 Now that was a big smile. Can you try a subtle smile to see if the computer can recognize? It does recognize subtle smiles as well. We've worked really hard to make that happen. And then eyebrow raised, indicator of surprise. Brow furrow, which is an indicator of confusion.

Rana el Kaliouby: This...

 And I'm seeing a lot of furrowed brows out there. So maybe you're having the same intuitions as the subjects that were actually tested in this, which is when presented with these options, people don't choose to play it safe. They actually tend to go a little risky.

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 but all sorts of different skin buckling and skin wrinkling occurs. You can see that the skin pore structure changes enormously from stretched skin pores to the regular skin texture. You can see the furrows in the brow and how the microstructure changes there.

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 The Enterprise's speed is warp 7 relative to the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Your speed is zero relative to your easy chair. But depending on where you sit, it is hundreds of miles/hour relative to Earth's center. When we furrow a brow and ask,

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 good low angle and after this I'm not sure what our views will be like we've ducked into a little drainage furrow so we should get some great views as he parades through this grass that is of course if he continues in the direction

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 was thought to be what was called an "island universe" beyond the edge of which lay cold, dark nothingness. But when Hubble looked at the photograph the next morning and compared it to previous ones, he furrowed his brow

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 the ground and then nature will take its course we can see here one of the old Horace tree furrows that would have been plowed gradually that the bulb muscles are filling up over the forestry residue

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 he's aiming for that termite mound what I'm trying to do is get parallel to him he's going to go investigate that furrow all right I'm gonna figure out

Furrow

Farming Context

Physical Mark

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