Expression Quotes - page 2

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. (Allen Ginsberg)
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. View quote
Mark Twain
"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. View quote
Winston Churchill
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. View quote
Walt Whitman
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. View quote
Albert Einstein
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. View quote
Max Jacob
Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. View quote
Junot Diaz
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression. View quote
Bela Lugosi
Disease is a vital expression of the human organism. View quote
Georg Groddeck
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. (Emmet Fox)
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
Italy is only a geographical expression. View quote
Klemens von Metternich
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. View quote
Franz Marc
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves we are the same. View quote
John Denver
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace. View quote
Karl Barth
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable. View quote
James Thurber
There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual. View quote
John Williams
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. View quote
George Eliot
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. (Ayn Rand)
I mean it's weird because the thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking. View quote
Naomi Watts
I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded. View quote
Edward Snowden
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. View quote
Henry Miller