Best Expression Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.”

Thinking Form Literature Enjoy Expression Cinema Novelists Love Literature

Author:Julia Leigh

“There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.”

People Thinking Way Faces Used Certain Seeing Expression Cameras Freak Posters Submissive Posing

Author:Rooney Mara

“In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be.”

Should Humans Shows Action Voice Church Religious Expression Catholic Raised Midst Intolerance Scotland Sectarianism

Author:Keith O'Brien

“Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.”

Ideas Self Religion Attitude Creation Expression Infinite Mere Individuality Endless Variety Poetry Is Self Expression

Book:Tagore

Source: Tagore

“Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.”

May Religion Path Mankind Taught Expression Ought Suits Oneness

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that like all ethnic groups they have their own racial elements distributed in their own proportions; like all or most ethnic groups they have their 'look,' a part of their cultural heritage that both preserves and expresses their cultural solidarity...they have developed a special racial sub-type and a special pattern of facial and bodily expression.”

Looks Form Race Groups Special Expression Type Elements Patterns Jew Preserves Proportion Heritage Solidarity Facial Cultural Heritage Ethnic Groups

Author:Carleton S. Coon

“Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.”

Feels Important Character Enjoy Acting Expression Comfortable Singing Incredibles Just Being Costumes Wigs Chameleon

Author:Brie Larson

“The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.”

Life Art Moments Life Is Change Perfect Expression Instruments Realization Present Moment That Moment Live In The Moment Live In The Present

Book:The Sermon on the Mount: a general introduction to scientific Christianity in the form of a spiritual key to Matthew V, VI, and VII

Source: The Sermon on the Mount: a general introduction to scientific Christianity in the form of a spiritual key to Matthew V, VI, and VII

“But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy.”

Joy Expression Horse

Author:Diane Lane

“Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener.”

Trying Made Ability Study Design Expression Skills Aspect Listeners Observers Facial Facial Expression Astute

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.”

Humans Looks Expression Civilization Findings Endeavor Inward Avenues

Author:John L. Phillips

“For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.”

Culture Land Expression Cooking Where You Are

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.”

Ifs Way Believe Fighting I Believe Expression Flow Majority Scales This Life Swim Swimming Amazing Things Tilt

Author:Michael J. Fox

“When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.”

Looks Eye Expression Bird Staring Tilt

Author:Ted Rall

“Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.”

Kind Expression Music Is Who I Am

Author:David Sanborn

“In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.”

Form Language Social Expression Factors

Book:General Linguistics

Source: General Linguistics

“Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.”

Mean Two Expression Masters Active Pulse Stravinsky Two Masters

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.”

Important Different Results Common Effects Expression Elements Structure Series Size Surface Corresponding Atomic Structure

Author:Johannes Stark

“A good warrior, a seventh or eighth degree black-belt, will tell you there is no victory. It doesn't make you more powerful to win. It's just what you do. It's an expression of your personal power level.”

Winning Black Levels Powerful Expression Victory Degrees Warrior Belts Personal Power Black Belt Good Warrior

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our lives, we can be very adept athletically.”

Use Energy Our Lives Expression Health Buddhism Athletics Adept

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is truly eternal and lasts forever. It is the core of our connection and expression of life.”

Life Inspirational Lasts Death Love Is Forever Positive Expression Inspirational Life Eternal Connections Core

Book:An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given

Source: An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given

“I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.”

Feels Writing Trying Character Stories Eye Faces Term Expression Mouths Noses Theme Plot Discussing Story Writing

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”

People Trying Faces Ability Forever Expression Broken Awkward Cracked Trust Others

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.”

Expression Access Selling Advertising Operations Links Google

Author:Jaron Lanier

“If you copy then it is not self-expression.”

Ifs Self Expression Copies Self Expression

Author:Michael Schenker

“The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.”

People Art Beautiful Artist Expression Music Is Artistic Copies Personal Expression

Author:Michael Schenker

“The expression of divinity is in variety.”

Expression Variety Divinity

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.”

Men Giving Play Talking Havens Expression Give Me Fingers Plastic Keyboards

Author:Midge Ure

“Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.”

Ideas Brain Expression Pure Fancy Pants

Author:Lev Yilmaz

“A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.”

Should Humans Use Sides Dark Human Nature Expression Criticism Uniforms Ugliness Dark Side Indignation

Author:Mo Yan

“Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence and despair, rather than the hope of the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ needs to look and repent of our own fallenness.... Whatever arena Christians withdraw from goes to hell.”

“Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.”

Way Inspirational Feels Life Is Expression Wall Buddhism Guilty Dominant Hostility Off The Wall

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you dig deeply, you will find that you are not a singular self but that there are many selves, many voices within you. The more conscious you are of those selves and the more you let them find expression through you, the more complete you will be.”

Ifs Self Voice Expression Buddhism Conscious Within You Dig Deep

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.”

Kind Seems Expression Gratitude Appreciate Appreciation All Kinds Cosmic Thankfulness Invitations Expressing Gratitude

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression.”

Spiritual Religion Expression Impression Minus

Book:Secrets to inner beauty

Source: Secrets to inner beauty

“If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of life of those who utter them, they will not be heard. But if they are uttered through the practice of the commandments, their sound has such power that they dissolve the demons and dispose men eagerly to build their hearts into temples of God through making progress in works of righteousness.”

Ifs Men Way Heart Christian Sound Practice Progress Heard Expression Messages Demon Temples Orthodox Righteousness Word Of God Rooted Virtuous Commandments Orthodox Christian

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.”

Whole Spirit Mother Father Known Mystery Expression Illusion All Things Infinite Tao Mystic Intricate Interdependence Great Spirit Separateness Web Of Life

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”

Humans States Motivational Life Is Challenges Expression Meaning Of Life Being Human Truest Search For Meaning Mans Search For Meaning

Book:The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy

Source: The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy

“I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.”

Ifs Soul Wonder Expression Communication Music Is

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“Freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the Prophets of Allah.”

Doe Expression Prophet Insulting Freedom Of Expression

Author:Anjem Choudary

People Believe Mean Doe Action Desire Divine Expression Speech Concepts Islam Determined Contrary Command Revelations Submission Misconception Freedom Of Expression Divine Revelation

Author:Anjem Choudary

“All tastes are expressions of belief.”

Belief Expression Taste

Author:Zadie Smith

“The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”

“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 with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?”

Values Hell Creative Expression Drug Stones Artistic Bother Rolling Addict Exes Heroin Rolling Stones Drug Addict Booze Drunkards Hendrix Creative Expression

Author:Lars von Trier

“All revealed truths derive from the same divine source and are to be believed with the same faith, yet some of them are more important for giving direct expression to the heart of the Gospel. In this basic core, what shines forth is the beauty of the saving love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead.”

Giving Heart Made Important Jesus Christ Divine Expression Source Jesus Christ Direct Died Shining Rose Core Saving God Love Manifest Saving Love

Book:The Joy of the Gospel

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“It’s tricky when you’re doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don’t have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice.”

Needs Voice Pieces Expression Weapons Gestures Costumes Tricky Delivery Facial Facial Expression

Author:Joyce DiDonato

“People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.”

People Self Seems Missing Expression Concerned Individuality Pursue Sense Of Humor Self Expression Identification

Author:Walter Lippmann

“There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.”

“There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.”

“Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.”

People Needs Jesus Secret Accepting Expression Blindness Healed Lecturing

Author:Philip Yancey

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