Expression Quotes

The environment can actually affect gene expression.

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

There's an expression, deja vu, that means that you feel like you've been somewhere before, that you've somehow already dreamed it or experienced it in your mind.

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression.

Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.

I think we need editorial oversight now more than ever. Anything we can do to help newspapers find new ways of expression that will help them get paid, I am all for.

The trouble with never is never, never works.

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.

There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Writing is a mysterious activity.

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.

Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.

A lonely impulse of delight

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.

CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression.

I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.

The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.

Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression.

People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression.

Well to me the most interesting things can be an actor's facial expression, a gesture, the movement of a body - all those things that we are saying to each other in-between the words.

Freedom demands that we struggle for an extension of both equality and free expression, not regard one as inimical to the other.

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

In the wake of the deaths of the satirists, Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie, became a slogan of solidarity for free expression around the world.