Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I hate this expression, but - "thinking outside the box," in terms of how to market and put a Broadway show out… — Katherine Shindle Copy Share Image
I gave her a smile that I hoped conveyed something like: Hey, you know I’m on your side. Gods are such jerks!… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Ive been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear… — Kourtney Kardashian Copy Share Image
Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I have always respected the freedom of expression. But the dissemination of false information is lamentable and subject to criminal penalties. — Albert II, Prince of Monaco Copy Share Image
That was when I cut my arms with a razor blade as a means of creative expression. I only did it lightly,… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Danger lurks when we divide ourselves with expressions such as "my private life," "my professional life," or even "my best behavior." Living… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I have always had a deep belief that every movie, every artistic expression, is political. Don't be fooled. Even ones that we… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
A fighter, a real strong fighter should always look dignified and calm and I believe that any expression of aggression is an… — Fedor Emelianenko Copy Share Image
Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced with the national consciousness into one organic whole.… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
I take out my pen and paper. I'd write how much I love you. I'd write just what you make me do,… — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
“The letter is susceptible of operations which enables one to transform literal expressions and thus to paraphrase any statement into a number… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
The soul of politeness is not a question of rules but of tranquility, humility, and simplicity. And in the taking of tea… — Dorothea Johnson Copy Share Image
I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed,… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
Artists often become vocal advocates of freedom of expression because we depend on it so heavily in our work. But it is… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it… — William Hughes Mearns Copy Share Image
Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Every individual's purpose in tithing is to open up his/her awareness of universal laws. Tithing opens you, to you. You are an… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I remember it as if it were today... seeing him [Che] framed in the viewfinder, with that expression. I am still startled… — Alberto Korda Copy Share Image
Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
“YOLO means You Only Live Once, so instead of using it as an expression to do whatever you want, use it as… — Kaley Ali Copy Share Image