Expresses Quotes

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I think that it is a feminine instrument, so when I do not sing, the music expresses my voice.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

I'm a walker. I enjoy walking, which I think psychologically expresses my feelings of wanting liberation without exerting myself too much.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

I just love fashion. I think it just expresses who you are so much.

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.

I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness.