Expression Quotes
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To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.
Willard Van Orman Quine -
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
Arsene Wenger
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The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?
Amanda Marcotte -
Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden the pressure is off and they just bring themselves to the table.
Emma Walton Hamilton -
Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
What about freedom of expression when anti-Semitism is involved? Then it is not freedom of expression. Then it is a crime.
Amr Moussa -
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
Eugene Wigner -
Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.
Charles Sheeler
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Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.
Noah Lukeman -
We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in my election district once every three months. In addition, people pay close attention to what my wife does and how my children live.
Nguyen Minh Triet -
The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.
Michael Schultz -
Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.
Judith Wright -
Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.
Christopher West -
I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure.
Thomas Eakins
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I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182 -
Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.
Anton Webern -
When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa -
Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money.
Fever Ray -
When you look at a work of art, you don't see a cover for something else; you see revelation. If you're an artist, art is the truest expression of yourself. Even if you're painting a life you don't have.
Deborah Solomon -
For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
Wolfgang Puck
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Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
George Eliot -
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
John Ruskin -
I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.
Etgar Keret