Expression Quotes
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'.
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The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.
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I'm a human. When I got hit in front of people of course I was angry so that's why my expression was like that.
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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.
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Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
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It was as though I found the language I'd wanted from photography; the expression that I got partly from photography, I got completely from cooking.
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The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.
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We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.
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Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.
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The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever.
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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
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Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.
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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God.
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Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.
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If by the expression "not practical" you mean "not easy," you are right. Definitely it is not easy. Yet it should be tried. You may say it is risky trying it. Surely it cannot be more risky than trying a nuclear war.
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Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
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Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.
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Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.
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Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?
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For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
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Emotion constantly finds expression in bodily position.
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I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.
