Expression Quotes

In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

Be a mistress to none, but all good to some.

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.

Freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the Prophets of Allah.

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Although many believe that technology automatically enables more realistic expression, I believe that is just not correct.

There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

Hrithik is the go-to guy for queries related to diet. He is great with expressions and is funny in real life. I wonder why someone hasn't cast him in a comic role yet.

Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

Emotions become more violent when expression is stifled.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

Going out to eat is expensive. I was out at one restaurant and they didn't have prices on the menu. Just faces with different expressions of horror.

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts.

Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl's eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. Humility moves a person away from human, personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength, and expansion.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

What a long strange trip it's been.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.