Expression Quotes · Page 42

Sometimes words are not enough to make someone feel that you care for them. Sometimes it needs a little effort.

— Anonymous

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom…

— Arthur Erickson

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

— Serj Tankian

Everyone has cried about something. Some people just don't admit to it because they think it's a sign of weakness.

— Sonya Parker

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

— John Henry Newman

I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.

— Ridley Scott

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

— Diogenes

A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've…

— Catherine Tate

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being…

— Alain de Botton

How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Victoria?" she hissed. "Laurent?" I nodded, a teensy bit alarmed by the expression in her black eyes. I pointed at my chest.…

— Stephenie Meyer

I think meditation helps greatly with creativity. If it's a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium,…

— Rainn Wilson

“Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did…

— Leo Tolstoy

Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and…

— Tom Ford

All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist…

— Akbar Ganji

Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look, we're trying to explore other options to your retirement," the whitecoat said. "You might be useful to us in other ways."…

— James Patterson

Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all…

— Iannis Xenakis

Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social,…

— E. O. Wilson

When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean…

— Peter Høeg

My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not…

— Padma Subrahmanyam

I don't agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to something if…

— Ryoko Tani

Words do not express thoughts nor do they express that which is real. Instead they distract. Believe in acts rather than words.

— Senora Roy

I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.

— Mohammed Morsi

“Skating is an amazing form of self-expression. It’s like my soul at play.”

— Josée Chouinard

Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

— Thomas Merton

I can't say how much I like you and how special you are to me, but I can say my world is…

— Anonymous

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

— Arthur Erickson

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

— Sally Kirkland

The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.

— Maria Montessori

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

— James Hillman

Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.

— John Frusciante

Tears are words Trapped in your heart, your tongue can't express it and your heart can't bare it.

— Anonymous

“Move and make a unique expression—an expression of God’s reflection.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

— Bruce Lee

My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.

— Murray Head

The feelings of the heart are more truthful than the expressions of the mouth.

— Terry Mark

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

— Anton Webern