Quotes about expression
expression nephew wish
[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions. P. G. Wodehouse
expression desire admission
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability. Marya Mannes
expression unrest vitality
It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. Martha Graham
expression speakers
The speaker must choose a comprehensible [verstandlich] expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another. Jurgen Habermas
expression fever rage
A fever is an expression of inner rage. Julia Roberts
expression play air
What about me?” Frances asked. “The butler,” Harriet replied without even a second of hesitation. Frances’s mouth immediately opened to protest. “No, no,” Harriet said. “It’s the best role, I promise. You get to do everything.” “Except be a unicorn,” Daniel murmured. Frances tilted her head to the side with a resigned expression. “The next play,” Harriet finally gave in. “I shall find a way to include a unicorn in the one I’m working on right now.” Frances pumped both fists in the air. “Huzzah! Julia Quinn
expression people manners
Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people. Molly Ivins
expression history energy
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it. Mary Ritter Beard
expression civilization agency
While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind.
expression hip-hop hips
Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing. Nikki Giovanni
expression larger-than-life understood
...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life? Nicole Krauss
expression nostalgia mercy
Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be. Marvin Gaye
expression car design
In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality. Martin Jacques
expression punishment death-penalty
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God. Martin Luther King, Jr.
expression direct-action social-values
Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.
expression sacred freedom-of-expression
Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought. Naguib Mahfouz
expression ideas progress
Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it. Pablo Picasso
expression dignity parables
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. Paul Claudel
expression desire highest
What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves. Oprah Winfrey
expression historical aberration
Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing. Margaret Thatcher
expression years laughing
A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years. Eli Roth
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 earth faces
The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed) Pierre Bonnard
expression design form
Design is a dreadful form of expression Philippe Starck
expression limits dignity
Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits. Pope Francis
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