Quotes about expression
expression freedom-of-speech liberty
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism. Kate Adie
expression enemy trying
There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things. Julie Bowen
expression faces common
She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend. Rachel Caine
expression scientific-method facts
Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn and shifty-eyed: solemn, because he feels he ought to declare an opinion; shifty-eyed, because he is wondering how to conceal the fact that he has no opinion to declare. Peter Medawar
expression people deception
The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. Peter Singer
expression hatred tears
Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears. Quentin Crisp
expression emotion violent
Emotions become more violent when expression is stifled. Philo
expression church needs
I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family. Philip Yancey
expression soul hints
He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious. Nathaniel Hawthorne
expression people acting
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously. Judy Holliday
expression serious ordinary
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life. Paul Tournier
expression safety creative
In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible. Paul Tillich
expression quality fairy
A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision. Paul Klee
expression band compromise
The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise. Patrick Stump
expression needs painting
Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting. Peter Greenaway
expression space substance
Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time. Paul Twitchell
expression people isms
The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any "ism." When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile. Meher Baba
expression bells my-favorite
My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell. Mel Brooks
expression requirements pope
Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one's own conscience which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority. Pope Benedict XVI
expression giving joy
The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the expression of happiness, of being in harmony with ourselves, that which can only come from being in harmony with God and with his creation. It belongs to the nature of joy to be radiant; it must communicate itself. The missionary spirit of the Church is none other than the impulse to communicate the joy which has been given.
expression play television
Incapable of conjuring up any facial expression that she did not learn from watching television, Jessica Alba plays a brilliant scientist who inadvertently acquires the ability to make herself invisible. This is not a gift Alba seems particularly comfortable with, as the last thing she needs is to be heard but not seen. Joe Queenan
expression miles picture-frames
I'm a million miles away, and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame. Jimi Hendrix
expression broken slavery
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery. Emma Goldman
expression nothingness
Expression is when you are at one with nothingness. John Frusciante
expression perfect way
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. John Drinkwater
expression perception musician
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.
expression horror accents
I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas. John Oliver
expression imagination divine
Nature is the direct expression of the divine imagination. John O'Donohue
expression theatre different
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. Lady Gaga
expression focus essentials
I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it. Julio Cortazar
expression albums would-be
I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it. Juliana Hatfield
expression individuality firsts
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. Lascelles Abercrombie
expression creative drug
There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin? Lars von Trier