No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
This, I think, is a really important question. Where does freedom of expression cross over into harassment? And what can you do… — Richard Bacon Copy Share Image
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy… — Charles Clark Copy Share Image
Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room… — Robbie Coltraine Copy Share Image
In the 1950s and '60s the [democrat] party included many obviously earnest and thoughtful liberals who supported goals that were in line… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Looking for inspiration in expression, I have actually always looked to singers and violinists. I have never really looked only at the… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense,… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
“The creator wrestles with a hard, invisible substance, a substance far superior to him. Even the greatest victor emerges vanquished, because our… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to… — James Dean Copy Share Image
If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining. — David Mermin Copy Share Image
As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
I have used the words and expressions which my experiences from Minsk to Kharkov to the Don suggested to me. But I… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as… — William James Copy Share Image
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
There are such feelings which the heart could not express. Some people liked to sing, dance, hurt themselves, suicidal, scream, cry, emote,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be… — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image