Expressive Quotes
139 quotes by 130 authors
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The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten…
— Sidney Poitier
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Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the…
— Norman Rockwell
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I think the good thing about my face is it has always been expressive. With Botox that goes - not what you want as an…
— Jane Seymour
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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a…
— Zack Snyder
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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human…
— Alfred de Vigny
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I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals…
— Christopher Walken
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My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
— Kate Walsh
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
— Walt Whitman
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My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.
— Steven Wright
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Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This…
— Eva Zeisel
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Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons. Eyebrows are very…
— Banksy
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You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that really has more to do with personality-the…
— Emily Giffin
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Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can…
— Ansel Adams
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But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you…
— Roland Barthes
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From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the…
— Haruki Murakami
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Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression…
— Allen Ginsberg
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I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't have to look…
— Massimo Vignelli
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What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward…
— Oscar Wilde
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His eyes, I’d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for…
— Richelle Mead
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