Expression Quotes

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.

Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

Our constitution enshrines the rule of law, freedom of worship and expression, we cherish these values too.

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "yes," he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5

She sits up. I can’t read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. “I didn’t think you were going to be here.” “I live here.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

No, you’re not going with him.” I crossed my arms. “Who decided that?” He put on his “I’m alpha and I’m putting my foot down” expression. “I decided.

I don't at all care who's on the right or left or in the center. Even though we use them, even though I use them myself, these expressions have lost all meaning.

I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.

This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

P.P.S. AND YOU CAN TALK. "Just say the word." JUST SAY THE WORD? What kind of expression is that? WHAT WORD WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SAY ANYWAY? MORON? Letter from Emily to Charles.

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didn’t belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her expression.

Minho looked at Thomas, a serious expression on his face. "If I don't see you on the other side," he said in a sappy voice, "remember that I love you.

We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

With an open mind, we gain insight into ideas and expressions that we may have overlooked or not noticed at all.

I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything.

A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

Hands are the medium of expression, as eyes are the windows to the soul.

If you got the poison, I've got the remedy.

Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.

I’ve heard the expression climbing walls, but I never thought I’d experience it, let alone like that,” she murmured, her mouth curling into what was probably a dreamy smile.

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

For me, fashion is an expression of who I am right in that moment - so what you're seeing is what I'm influenced by now.

God is our loving Father who loves his children perfectly. So, every part of his Word is an expression of his love to us.

Because God loves us, he gives us practical teaching and boundaries to protect our hearts. The whole thing is one big expression of a father's love for his children.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life.

He was in uniform, gun at his hip, expression dialed to Dirty Harry, and just looking at him had something pinging low in Chloe’s belly.

[Kenneth Koch] taught us to be playful, to be very appreciative of other poets, to appreciate all forms of expression. He taught us to be experimental.

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.

We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.

Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it.

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".

Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.