Expression Quotes

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

Over time the energy generated in romance and lovemaking provides the vitality that inspires each partner for enthusiastic creative expression in life.

[Pope Francis] has reminded us that the way we live our lives is the most important expression of our Catholic identity.

Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people think are well drawn

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it's a British expression. There's no couture in their darling.

I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

For me, the live show is sort of the ultimate expression of this journey that I've been on.

America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

I love the expression that 'When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn't.'

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.

Skating is an amazing form of self expression. It's like my soul at play.

A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.

Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith.

The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

I'd feel a little bit dead inside, if I didn't have dancing. It's such a way of expression and exercise and life and love. You laugh, when you're being corny and dorky-dancing. It's everything.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture

Fishing: I don't really like it. I don't really like the expression on the fish's face.

I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own life experiences, feelings, struggles, frustrations etc. as the catalyst for my song writing.

Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami.

Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were.

Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."

Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I'm animated.

America, I don't think you can change history." All the same, his expression looked hopeful. "Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know about it but you and me?

You!” she said, stepping forward with a vehement expression and her finger pointed. Heart pounding, I pressed into Al. Funny how he seemed so much safer now. (Newt, Rachel and Al)

I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's left over from life.

Love is truly eternal and lasts forever. It is the core of our connection and expression of life.

I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.

Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?

Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.

While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others' rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-expression and creativity, and keep a lid on your potential.

Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.