Expression Quotes
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The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.
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There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.
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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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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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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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Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'.
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Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
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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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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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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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We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.
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Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.
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Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
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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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Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?
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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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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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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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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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Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.
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PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.
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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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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
