Expression Quotes

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.

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

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.