Expression Quotes

• I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders. "The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too." "I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Expression
  • Passing
  • Catching

• 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

• Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Truth
  • Mother
  • Freedom

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

  

  Michael Schenker
  • Expression
  • Copies

• You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Fire
  • Blow
  • Candle

• The truth always stays the same.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Truth
  • Expression

• In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.'

  

  David Connolly
  • Purpose
  • Choosing
  • Freely

• A fever is an expression of inner rage.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Expression
  • Rage
  • Fever

• Social media amplifies both the good side and the dark side of human nature. ... Notwithstanding human ignorance, freedom of expression is essential.

  

  Newton Lee
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Human Nature

• What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Acting
  • Expression
  • Once

• My Body, My Soul and I.

  

  Ian Gardner
  • Soul
  • Body
  • 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

• 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

• Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

  

  Myrna Loy
  • Expression
  • Screens
  • Hostility

• I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

  

  Hedda Hopper
  • Remember
  • Actors
  • Invention

• All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Thinking
  • Expression
  • Completion

• There is a beautiful expression in Nicaragua: "struggle is the highest form of song". I love that. We are in the struggle. It's like a river. Once you step into it you become the river. It's not, you go out and click on a couple of charities that you believe in, march in the Women's March, and you're done. Struggle becomes your life, transforming a paradigm that is based on domination into a paradigm of co-operation. Fighting for the liberation of women, of people of color, of indigenous people, of lgbtq communities. Fighting to protect immigrants and assuring the safety of refugees.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Believe
  • Safety
  • I Love

• Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Expression
  • Nothingness

• He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression...

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Interest
  • Emotion
  • Strange

• The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Joy

• Am I too early?" "No. He's waiting for you." The smile faded, to be replaced by a slightly disappointed expression. "I thought you'd be . . . scarier.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Waiting
  • Smile
  • Disappointed

• Artists often become vocal advocates of freedom of expression because we depend on it so heavily in our work. But it is an inalienable right that belongs to everyone on an equal basis.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Expression

• Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Art
  • Science
  • Inspiration

• Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

  

  Doris Humphrey
  • Good
  • Words
  • Human

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