Expression Quote by Gustave Flaubert Download Open image ““Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.”” — Gustave Flaubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expression Speech
“Speech is a rolling mill which always stretches out the feelings that go into it.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Speech is a rolling machine that always stretches the feelings it expresses.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“This sentence is filled with unnecessary words, phrases and rhetorical throat-clearing devices and is marked by a generally bombastic tone.” — Charles M. Fox Copy Share Image
“I fill my life with speech, but not with people who are truly listening.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Words are wind, and the only good wind is that which fills our sails.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
“Words can hurt. Speech can harm. Always think through before you talk and you will save a heart from feeling bitter.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“There’s something interesting about a voice crying out in the wilderness. It’s loud. It’s radical, and by implication, it must be willing and able… — Michelle Walker-Wade Copy Share Image
“It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“Speech is a spell, and words, once ejected into the air, warp the weave of worlds.” — Ho Tzu Nyen Copy Share Image
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Instead of asking a girl how she feels, try looking through her recently listened to songs. The lyrics are the answer to all your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience. — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression. — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
