Expressive Quotes

139 quotes by 130 authors

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. — Peter Ackroyd
I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music. — Kris Allen
For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and… — James Emanuel
The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he… — Henry Ward Beecher
It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are… — Charles Darwin
Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery,… — Jane Smiley
C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string. — Jamie Zawinski
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld… — Robert Burns
He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce. — Fintan O'Toole
American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones. — Simon Pegg
I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer,… — Michael Jackson
My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to… — John Cassavetes
I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but… — Lillian Gish
I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business. I'm really glad that… — Shirley Eaton
There are people that thinks that type should be expressive. They have a different point of view from mine. — Massimo Vignelli
This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this… — Michael Chekhov
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead. — Cherrie Moraga
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. — Kenneth R. Miller
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to… — Mikhail Bakhtin
Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct â€“ but the whole effect is more… — Florence Nightingale

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