Expression Quotes

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage.

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

The expression of divinity is in variety.

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

I think K-Pop is a type of expression.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

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.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.

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.

In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

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

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

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

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

I've had every haircut you could possibly imagine: mullet, tail, dreadlocks, afro, crew cut. It's always been an expression of who I am.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.

Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.