Expression Quotes

• Ever hear that expression, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times"? That's what high school was like for me. Both of those - all the time.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • School
  • Expression
  • Worst

• When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Ideas
  • Actors
  • Able

• Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Human
  • Expression

• Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

  

  Steven Saylor
  • Novel
  • Hopes
  • Fears

• I've always used masks. I think it's a lot about the fact that masks often reveal a sort of subconscious element to a character. The mask is carved and given an expression or markings to reveal something, even though it's shielding the face. Even though it's hiding the face, it seems to reveal something underneath.

  

  Dave McKean
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Elements

• Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being able to picture it.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Writing
  • Strange
  • Able

• In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.

  

  Raul Castro
  • Party
  • Differences
  • Class

• To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Expression

• Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

  

  David Mermin
  • Scientists
  • Conventions
  • Entirely

• 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
  • Energy
  • Expression
  • Feminist

• In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Forever
  • Victory
  • Hatred

• At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful …

  

  Joyce Kilmer
  • Beautiful
  • Soldier
  • Poet

• One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential point to other minds. Words may have to be strained into a new sense, and scientific controversies constantly resolve themselves into differences about the meaning of words. On the other hand, a happy nomenclature has sometimes been more powerful than rigorous logic in allowing a new train of thought to be quickly and generally accepted.

  

  Arthur Schuster
  • Words
  • Idea
  • Accepted

• 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
  • Language
  • Emotions
  • Expression

• I don't want to die, but I'm ok putting it all out there for the most beautiful expression of my life.

  

  Dean Potter
  • Want
  • Expression
  • Putting

• The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Action
  • Problem
  • Feels

• The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Mind
  • Play
  • Result

• The face of the sun is not without expression, but it tells us precious little of what is in its heart.

  

  Armin Joseph Deutsch
  • Heart
  • Sun
  • Face

• Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Thoughts
  • Speak
  • Write

• When this vital part of each of us is not nurtured and allowed freedom of expression, a false or co-dependent self emerges.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Freedom
  • Not Allowed
  • Co-dependent Self

• I think we need editorial oversight now more than ever. Anything we can do to help newspapers find new ways of expression that will help them get paid, I am all for.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Ways
  • Newspaper
  • Oversight

• There's a great expression that says, "God is a jealous lover," and it's a very accurate expression that has nothing to do with whatever you see god or nature as.

  

  Ben Lee
  • Expression
  • God Is
  • Lover

• However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.

  

  Arjuna Ardagh
  • Life
  • Expression
  • Possibility

• I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression.

  

  Nick Carter
  • People
  • Expression
  • Traditional

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