Expression Quotes

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

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

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

Italy is a geographical expression.

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.