Expression Quotes

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.

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.

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.

The expression of divinity is in variety.

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.