Expression Quotes

• Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Great
  • Poetry
  • Use

• A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • May
  • Action
  • Eye

• She gives the night its dreams.

  

  Chris Cornell Audioslave
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Giving

• Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Expression
  • Appearance
  • Inner

• Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Expression
  • Delight
  • Spirituality

• I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Think
  • Genius
  • Irish

• You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.

  

  William Allen White
  • People
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Believe
  • Right
  • Panic

• To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Liberty

• The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Why
  • Human
  • Expression

• I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Personality
  • Expression

• If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reality
  • Thing
  • Happened

• An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.

  

  Ximénès Doudan
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Expression

• Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object, is both a language and an analytical method. In short, the art of reasoning can be reduced to a well-constructed.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Art
  • True
  • Languages

• Was I speared? I think so. Slam-dunked is probably the expression which sums it up best.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Expression
  • Sums
  • Slam-dunked

• You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Villainy

• Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique.

  

  Kano Jigoro
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• By a man's fingernails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the calluses of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuffs, by his movements—by each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent enquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. SHERLOCK HOLMES, 1892

  

  Barbara Pease
  • Expression
  • Movements
  • Fingernails

• Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.

  

  Wilhelm Stekel
  • Depression
  • Expression
  • Virtuous

• If you copy then it is not self-expression.

  

  Michael Schenker
  • Expression
  • Copies

• I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.

  

  Amanda Ava Koci
  • Important
  • Expression
  • Speaks

• In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Sense
  • Sin
  • Expression

• It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.

  

  Antonin Dvorak
  • Art
  • American
  • Beginning

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