True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I believe in it so passionately because anywhere you look in the world, where governments become too big or become authoritarian, speech… — Andrew Scheer Copy Share Image
The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“Loneliness of heart In the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far… — M.I. Ghostwriter Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls. These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The man who knelt before her would have sprung from her needles, even down the ghostly flecks of silver in his hair.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it. I compose what I project will be seen as a smile. I… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The greatest of people in society carve niches that represent the unique expression of their combinations of talents. If everyone had the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about… — Shaun Tomson Copy Share Image
Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
One who has self-esteem esteems oneself because one knows the value of one's being as a singular yet universal expression of the… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
“Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It's also an examination of what it means to be alive… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
There are people that appreciate the music for its musical value and there are people that will always think that it should… — Bruce Molsky Copy Share Image
Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is notacknowledged… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to assume the… — Charles F. Haanel Copy Share Image
Glamour is an attitude-it's the expression of a certain kind of confidence. A glamorous woman is always elegant, but she also possesses… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just explained that he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
