Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Connolly

No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

Ornette Coleman

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.

Octavio Paz

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Andrei Codrescu

Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.

Geno Auriemma

It's not anything that you could ever prepare yourself for. And for someone who spends a lot of time talking, it really is the first thing that really renders you speechless because you just don't know how to express in words what it would mean to be part of this fraternity. And I still haven't figured out how to say it. All I can do is just look around bug-eyed at all the people that are here.

Amber Riley

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

Everyone has some sort of outlet which they use to express their joys, sorrows and frustrations. Singing provides that outlet for me.

Albert Einstein

These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.

This is a unique way to express my faith to the community. It's also a way to show my kids that we are putting a little extra into our faith at this time of year.

Pope John

Once more I express my nearness to the populations struck by the tragic cataclysm of these past days.

David Williams

It's hard to express what's been going on the last few days.

David Williams

It?s hard to express what?s been going on.

It's hard to express oneself at times like this,

Gary Condit

Congressman Gary Condit and family want to express their heartfelt sorrow and condolences to the Levy family. The Levy family will remain in our prayers.

The news pained and saddened Cubans. In their name, we wish to express our profound solidarity with the people of the United States, state and local authorities and the victims of this catastrophe.

Chris Witty

Tattooing isn't about money. It's about freedom, really. Freedom to work for yourself; express yourself. I leave a piece of myself wherever I go.

It's important to understand your ownership pattern because it is an expression of the values that guide your life. The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.

I want to express our extreme reserve about the extension, all the more so since the measures have been used only on rare occasions. We do not see any reason to justify its extension.

I wanted to work for myself. I wanted to do something where I could express myself.

It was not for the express purpose of the lawsuit. He just wanted to help out his friend.

I've heard girls that have expressed interest. When the girls played year-round, we had a lot of success.

Bill McCartney

I've found the smartest thing I could do was stay off the radar. I know just enough to be dangerous, meaning, if you express your opinions, people are going to take a side on it. I don't want to do that. I don't want to be a lightning rod, but I want to be supportive. That's the fine line I walk.

J. J. Johnson

It's given me a way to express myself, obviously.

Jane Green

When you're working from home and you've got children, a big night out is going to Pizza Express down the road.

John Coltrane

My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it through my music. If you can live it, there's no problem about the music, because it's part of the whole thing.

Gene Luen Yang

When you work on a pre-existing character, when you end up getting invited to be part of a legacy character like Superman, I don't feel like it would be true to the character if all I did was go in looking to express my own voice.

Nan Hayworth

We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.

Nelly

Righteous willin, the only thing supreme swimmin'.

Nelly

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

Moby

Honestly, the most vulnerable part of my life is probably just honest expression, as cliché as that might sound.

Moby

What makes me vulnerable is any genuine expression of emotion in the presence of another person. It makes me vulnerable and my inclination is, of course, immediately to back away from anything that makes me vulnerable.

Miguel

PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING PEOPLE DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU!! IT'S BECAUSE OF THEMSELVES!!