Expression Quotes

I think that's almost what it is sometimes if you sum up what acting is. It's just the ultimate expression of empathy.

I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.

I've always loved [Elsa Dorfman] work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the reasons to make the film is to expose Elsa, hopefully, to a wider audience.

The future belongs to those who have the courage to create it. We need a new humanity. We need a new expression of community. We need the Church to bring the world together. This makes me excited.

I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

I get to see the world and try to make people happy. I'm very much of a wandering spirit, if you'll pardon the expression.

If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.

Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?

As the consumer is the public general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free market is the most obvious expression of the sovereignty of the people and the best guarantee of democracy.

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.

The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

Clothing is art. It's an expression of how you feel. I think that it's not so much a question of a certain style or designer, but of finding the type of clothing that works well for you.

I think I've always admired sort of dynamic filmmakers, which doesn't shy away from strong expressions. Which might be a little more theatrical at some points.

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject.

Whether I sign a bill or not, is generally an expression of my personal view on the subject. It's not an interpretation of an existing law.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

Everything is Dinky Doo.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

It's something that I've always loved to do and it's been such a genuine expression for me.

When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.

We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.

Our hair can be a fun outlet for self expression. I love wearing cornrows and getting my hair thread-wrapped because it feels ancient and African.

I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a "tightwad," if you will pardon that expression, or to be a freeloader, or anything of the kind.

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

I think the election of Trump was an expression of what happens in ruling powers as they become alarmed.

The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.

Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.

Now and then, there's a fool such as I.

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.

A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.

The voice is not only indicative of man's character, but it is the expression of his spirit. Other sounds can be louder than the voice, but no sound can be more living.

After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.