Expression Quotes

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of.

I think if you're looking for a pure expression of evil, torture is pretty - is a pretty good candidate.

Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as musicians.

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

Let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love

Stop giving your power away and begin to trust that your feelings are in fact expressions of the deepest truths.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.

His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.

Your soul was like a network of spittle.

Music is an expression of sound that reflects the beauty of life.

Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.

Costumes, fashion, it's all an expression of self, and the more you push the boundaries - the more that people work at creating alternative ideas - the more it changes people's ideas of beauty.

Love always requires tangible expression. It needs hands and feet.

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'.

The most potent and significant expression of statism is a State educational system. Without it, statism is impossible. With it, the State can, and has, become everything.

... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that you can pass it along to someone who has never heard the expression.

The family consists of those who live under the same roof with the pater familias ; those who form (if I may use the expression) his fire-side.

There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in an expression of love

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

The waiting is the hardest part.

You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

That's what happens when bodies start slapping.

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.

I'm going to wait til the midnight hour, that's when my love begins to shine.

An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

I know the constitution in Oregon was passed in 1859. Free expression of opinion.

The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.