Quotes about expression
expression unrest vitality
It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. Martha Graham
expression play perception
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. Marshall McLuhan
expression silence wells
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. Mark Helprin
expression voice singing
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming. Maria Callas
expression wonderful capable
Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of. Marianne Williamson
expression exciting
In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’ Michael Hawley
expression judging people
Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.
expression order ideas
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea Hans Hofmann
expression giving anxiety
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime ... George Orwell
expression stranger knows
Change is a stranger you have yet to know. George Michael
expression looks care
Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it. John Ruskin
expression opposites demand
Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.
expression dignity language
The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.
expression opposites unity
As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.
expression imperfection vitality
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
expression benefits censorship
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship. John Paul Stevens
expression ideas benefits
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is more likely to interfere with the free exchange of ideas than to encourage it. The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.
expression architecture values
Architecture is an expression of values. Norman Foster
expression long mind
Consider the word “time.” We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with “time” as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed. Mitch Albom
expression should painter
A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter. Robert Henri
expression may painting
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
expression consciousness form
What I know for sure is that I am a temporary expression in physical form of the one consciousness that expresses itself throughout the universe. I am not separate from that. Eckhart Tolle
expression consciousness humans
Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.
expression splits towns
Suddenly the intermedia shows are all over town..Theirs remains the most dramatic expression of the contemporary generation. The place where its needs and desperations are most dramatically split open. At the Plastic Inevitable it is All Here and Now and the Future. Jonas Mekas
expression insult-to-injury ifs
A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.' Jon Stewart
expression freedom-of-speech liberty
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism. Kate Adie
expression enemy trying
There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things. Julie Bowen
expression waiting hardest
The waiting is the hardest part. Tom Petty
expression world rooms
I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
expression personality privilege
The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege. Simone Weil
expression looks hamburgers
Tell you what," I said. "After the testing after the Demon Days, when things settle down -" "Things won't settle down." "- I'm going to take you to the mall." She blinked. "The mall? For what reason?" "To hang out," I said. "We'll get some hamburgers. See a movie." Zia hesitated. "Is this what you'd call a 'date'?" My expression must have been priceless, because Zia actually cracked a smile. "You look like a cow hit with a shovel. Rick Riordan
expression islands long
There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression.
expression bird hot
Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me. Tippi Hedren