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“Your soul was like a network of spittle.”

Soul Expression Your Soul

Author:Patti Smith

“You're driving with your eyes closed.”

Eye Expression Driving

Author:Don Henley

“A fighter, a real strong fighter should always look dignified and calm and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training, then he will face the fight calm and balanced.”

Should Believe Looks Persons Real Faces Fighting Strong I Believe Ability Expression Training Weakness Calm Nervous Fighter Opponents Mma Balanced Aggression Be Confident Strong Person

Author:Fedor Emelianenko

“Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.”

Art Form Fighting Expression Speech Martial Arts Mma

Author:Chael Sonnen

“My inspiration's coming from nature, I love nature and all the expressions, I love art, I love expressions of beauty. It's part of my life, being engaged in the moment.”

Art Moments Inspiration Expression Engaged Mma Nature Love

Author:Rickson Gracie

“It's something that I've always loved to do and it's been such a genuine expression for me.”

Expression Genuine Mma

Author:Gina Carano

“Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.”

Self Honest Expression Mma Self Expression Self Actualization Actualization

Author:Bruce Lee

“For me, clothes mean self-expression. You need to have an audience and connect with people. Fashion is shared. It connects people. And we share an experience beyond the clothes.”

People Needs Mean Self Audience Share Fashion Expression Clothes Self Expression

Author:Anna Dello Russo

“I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty physical actor I suppose anyway, and I just don't - I don't struggle that idea of emotional expression just because there aren't words to explain yourself.”

World Wells Ideas Actors Struggle Emotional Expression Silent Rely Explain Yourself Emotional Expression

Author:Guy Pearce

“I'm the kind of person who, as much as I like clothes in real life because it's a fun expression of who you are and everybody kind of enjoys wearing things that make them...well, in movies you're wearing things that aren't necessarily the things you would choose to put on or wear.”

Wells Kind Persons Real Fun Enjoy Expression Clothes Who You Are Real Life

Author:Kate Hudson

“While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others' rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-expression and creativity, and keep a lid on your potential.”

Needs Self Creativity Expression Expectations Self Expression

Author:Lauren Mackler

“I am pro-expression. I am pro - you know, as long as you don't hurt anyone.”

Knows Long Hurt Expression

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such drawings are made with no thought of public exhibition. They possess the intimacy of diaries.”

Made Expression Drawing Intimacy Revealing Diaries Exhibitions

Book:The Artist & the Nude: An Anthology of Drawings

Source: The Artist & the Nude: An Anthology of Drawings

“Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.”

Love Grows Expression Surrender Genuine God Love Consistent Love Your Enemies Love Grows Expressions Of Love Loving Your Enemies Surrender To God

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.”

Able Political Desire Leader Cases Expression Compromise Revolutionary Concrete Proletariat Treachery Political Leaders Opportunism

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.”

People Giving Feelings Certain Objects Expression Thirds Newspapers Sentiments Defects Desirable

Book:Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

“Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.”

Should Art Artist Break Alive Expression Claims Cameras Conventions Worn Freedom Of Expression Worn Out

Author:Alvin Langdon Coburn

“At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.”

Way Film Form Class Issues Comedy Serious Expression University Temples

Author:Tim Heidecker

“The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.”

Three Language Rich Expression Grew Grew Up Seven Variety Fifteen Dialect Sierra Sierra Leone

Book:Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel

Source: Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel

“Forgiveness is a powerful expression of the love within our soul.”

Soul Powerful Expression

Author:Anthony Douglas

“Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.”

World This World Expression Photography

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

“Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.”

Culture Expression Empathy Feminine Warmth Sweetness Masculine Impediments Trajectory

Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you're ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Might Individual Creative Rights Expression One Day Intellectual Ill Farms Regimes Publish Individual Rights Free Expression

Author:Julian Assange

“In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day.”

Children Soul Self Expression Shapes Myth Greek Poetic Self Expression

Author:Hermann Hesse

“The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.”

Men Character Language He Man Expression Refined Coarse

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.”

Mean Stills Light Government Together Speak Expression Let Me Remains Stations Going Out Closing Earnestness Parliamentary Closing Down Parliamentary Government

Book:Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches

Source: Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches

“Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.”

Should Littles Language Voice Style Expression Great Things Tone Little Things Emphasis Spoiled Lofty Delivery

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.”

Humans Long Law Individual Human Beings Views Saws Subjects Expression Permit Charter

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.”

People Ifs Humans Said Feelings Expression Ill Occasions Sensible Pulpit Hunted Unselfishness Screwtape Letters Live For Others Ill Feelings

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it will be capable of spontaneously producing, with no effort of hesitation, a magnificent and wonderfully ordered expression of his nature and our destinies.”

Men Art States Effort Principles Destiny Objects He Man Expression Capable Ideals Impression Magnificent Our Destiny Hesitation Impart Artifice

Author:Paul Valery

“The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man in every circumstance, and that is obvious enough. But the expression "know everything" means nothing.”

Ifs Knows Men Should Mean Enough Able Expression Circumstances Obvious Every Man Swear

Author:Paul Valery

“It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more. ...But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense.”

“Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.”

Values Taken Expression Monetary

Book:Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Source: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

“Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.”

Joy Laughing Tears Expression Sorrow Horror Laughter Terror Extremes Anguish Merriment Tears Of Joy Tears Of Sorrow

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.”

Truth Justice Liberty Danger Expression Hero Truth Is Atmosphere Endeavor Hostile Pursued Freedom Of Expression

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition, and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.”

Ideas Different Sometimes Used Expression Phrases Lazy Formulas Repetition Contradictory Felicity

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give him an expression of shock, so he poured scalding hot water on my arm during the take. He splashed it on me. He got his expression of shock, but I also got, like, second-degree burns!”

Giving Wanted Remember Film Water College Expression Arms Directors Degrees Hot Shock Hot Water

Author:John Kapelos

“I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.”

Art Beautiful Young Girl Expression Beautiful Art

Author:Natalie Portman

“Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression. I hate when I feel like I'm the lead guitarist in a rock band. We all gotta be going somewhere strong together, you know?”

Knows Feels Self Together Hate Song Strong Grows Rocks Particular Expression Involved Band Elements I Hate Self Expression Guitarist Rock Bands Strong Together

Author:David First

“Back in the day, I came up with the expression "Same Animal - Different Cages" to describe our songs. I suppose over the years I've just broadened the meaning of that.”

Years Different Song Animal Expression Cages Back In The Day

Author:David First

“For me, the live show is sort of the ultimate expression of this journey that I've been on.”

Shows Journey Expression Ultimate

Author:Jonathan Coulton

“Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.”

Children Seems Silence Expression Cold Speech Silent Significant Unhappiness Outsiders Widows Accompany Inconsequential Deceased Impassioned

Author:Anton Chekhov

“There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.”

Feels Ideas Real Reality Form Lying Behinds Issues Example Expression Draws Destruction Appearance Drawing Visuals Urges Capture Erase Outward Appearance

Author:Antoni Tapies

“I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an historic monument, but it does not deserve all the respect given it when it is said it is perfect, original and coherent expression of a past that we must revere. Orsay is basically a box.”

Doe Said Past Courses Given Perfect Expression Deserve Originals Boxes Architecture Stations Historic Monument Terrain

Author:Gae Aulenti

“I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.”

Thinking Humans Art Existence Expression Art Is Human Existence Default

Author:Robert Gober

“Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.”

Mean Art Earth Grows Understanding Our Lives Expression Understood Art Is Texture

Author:Rufino Tamayo

“The field of creativity that exists within each individual is freed by moving out of ideas of wrong-doing or right-doing. If we can answer 'yes' to the question. 'Is my self-worth as strong as my self-critic?' then we are ready to engage our creative expression.”

Ifs Ideas Self Moving Individual Strong Answers Creativity Creative Fields Ready Expression Critics Self Worth Creative Expression My Self Worth Moving Out

Author:Angeles Arrien

“My vision is to not only define food and cooking as an art, but to go back to the roots of cooking and showcase the process through a more simplistic, ethereal approach as an expression of life and living.”

Art Process Vision Expression Approach Life And Living Roots Cooking Ethereal Showcase

Author:Lorena Garcia

“We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.”

Important Country Liberty Expression Free Country

Author:James Green

“I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.”

Should Art Play Kids Expression Punk Nostalgic

Author:Tom DeLonge

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