Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.

When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.

Abraham Lincoln

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Chet Faker

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.

Nina Garcia

Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.

C. S. Lewis

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

Cecil Beaton

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

Cecelia Ahern

She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging by the activity on her forehead...It was almost the conversations in her head were loud enough to fill her silence.

Carrie Fisher

The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.

Bill Bryson

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

Bill Brandt

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

Mark Zuckerberg

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

Penny Marshall

Look at YouTube, how many talented people there are. It's a whole new world of how to express yourself. I don't know how to work that world, but take advantage of it.

Mstislav Rostropovich

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

We wanted to keep it quiet, keep it a surprise for her. I hated to fib and lie to a good friend, but just to see her expression was worth every penny, every minute.

Piet Mondrian

We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.

Oscar Arias

On Dec. 1, 1948, after the triumph of the revolution, which insured the final victory of the will of the people expressed through elections, President Jose Figueres abolished the army in my country.

Oscar Isaac

Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.

Retief Goosen

I would love to win ? not too many players have won it three times, ... But this week, next week at the World Match Play and the American Express are three very important weeks.

Members expressed a lack of understanding about the project. They wanted to make sure we're not just giving money to a pizza joint.

Ernesto Zedillo

Wherever we are found, we always express and honor our love for Mexico, with all our hearts and our heads held high,

Barry Lopez

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Literature -- the expression of a nation's mind in writing.

Mike Birbiglia

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.

We don't take issue with anything the minister has expressed here today.

Frank White

We have spoken to Federal Express to be ready to load up everything the day before Oct. 11, which is Tuesday.

Ethan Zuckerman

We are trying to do a transfer of technology that allows people to express themselves without taking risks. It is about free speech, that's all.

You know who you can know, and you know who you can like, and there are affinities that are expressed without ever having an explanation.

Rhianna Pratchett

We're not used to seeing any videogames character express sentiments like fear, uncertainty or remorse.

Plus, freedom of expression is a pretty mushy, fuzzy area. That's everything to everybody.

Poetry is an expression to release your inner perspective on life, love, and nostalgia.

Satyajit Ray

One of the reasons why some of my films seem so slow is because the soundtrack isn't expressive enough - maybe they need more sound or music.