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“Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.”

“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

“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

“It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.”

Art Said Ends Done Literature Effects Produce Expression Understood Art Is Aim Condemnation

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.”

Ifs Doe Said Character Turns Sex Results Behinds Identity Expression Consequence Gender Distinction Constructs Being There Gender Identity Sex And Gender

Author:Judith Butler

“The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .”

Said Shows Law Evil Cutting Expression Masters Lovers Holy Tyrants Preacher Minimum Show Me Honored Rubbish Necessary Evil

Author:Anthony de Mello

“The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, "When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?" The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, "Yes!"”

Said Reality Eye Names Speak Expression Masters Eternal Concepts His Eyes Mysticism Scholar Transcendent Transient Disarming

Author:Anthony de Mello

“I was talking to my friend from New York yesterday, and I used the expression, 'You can't polish a turd'. He looked at me, disgusted, and said, 'No, you can't, but you can roll it in glitter'. He's a lovely guy but I wouldn't want to go to a craft fair with him”

Want Said Used Guy Talking New York Expression My Friends Fairs Yesterday Lovely Crafts Polish Glitter Disgusted Turds

Author:Steve Williams

“Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.”

May Has Beens Said Seems Age Form Found Individual Given Religious Numbers Expression Industry Periods Evidence Concern Being True Substitutes Factories Gothic Cathedrals

Book:Charles Sheeler: across media

Source: Charles Sheeler: across media

“In fact, on one occasion, a rather pedantic experimental psychologist was telling him about a long, complicated experiment he had done, incorporating all the proper controls and using considerable technical virtuosity. When he saw Crick's exasperated expression he said, "but Dr. Crick, we have got it right - we know it's right," Crick's response was, "The point is not whether it's right. The point is: does it even matter whether its right or wrong?"”

Knows Long Doe Said Matter Done Facts Pain Saws Expression Response Complicated Experiments Occasions Therapy Injury Drs Psychologist Incorporating Pedantic Virtuosity

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.”

Mind May Said Simple Produce Expression Flower Seeds Charm Our Thoughts Richness

Author:Joseph Joubert

“One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?”

Ifs Want Said Whole Facts Reality Universe Wonderful Expression Masters Personality Window Embrace Zen Master

Book:Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering

Source: Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering

“It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly no such general proposition can be sustained. Quite the contrary.... The provocative nature of the communication does not make it any the less expression. Indeed, the whole theory of free expression contemplates that expression will in many circumstances be provocative and arouse hostility. The audience, just as the speaker, has an obligation to maintain physical restraint.”

“New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.”

Long Has Beens Said Enough Philosophy Might Earth Expression Philosophical Enthusiasm Asylums Contradicting Madhouses

Book:The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays

Source: The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays

“Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.”

Ifs Kind May Persons Said Moments Age Dies Beauty Objects Expression Flower Taste Shining Mere Old Age Features Maturity Sentiments Fades Literal Refined

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Lady ---- is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a woman's having brought her husband a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one; for it is never said, from whence.”

Said Seems Joy Son Expression Birth Husband Noble Cautious Great Joy

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity.”

“It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”

People Giving Said Community Opinion Modern Ignorance Expression Regret Journalism Favour I Regret Uneducated Modern Journalism

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'”

Writing Said Faces Party Wife Strange Expression Concerned Dinner Guests Dinner Party Thurber

Book:For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

Source: For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

Source: William Shakespeare

“o the gay community I apologize if I did something, but all I said was I was against same-sex marriage. But I am not condemning you. My favorite expression is, 'Love one another…as you love yourself, love thy neighbor.'”

Ifs Said Sex Community Love You Expression Self Love Gay My Favorite Neighbor Love Yourself Apologizing Love One Another Condemning Love Thy Neighbor I Apologize Gay Community

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.”

Art Said Silence Expression Elements Technique Contradiction Devices Works Of Art Avoidance

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?”

People Looks Said Reality Eye Perfect Television Expression Fascinating Trends Narcissism Doing Nothing Reality Television

Book:Espresso Tales

Source: Espresso Tales

“I remember from when I use to be a dancer, there is an expression among dancers, I had a T-shirt that said: SHUT UP AND DANCE.”

Said Use Remember Expression Shirts Dancer Shut Up T Shirt Use To Be

Author:Christopher Walken

“We made our debut in Japan about few years ago and when we went on a morning show there to promote our album, I did a brief interview in Japanese using simple expressions such as "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu." But one of the members of our group said, "Stay quiet if you can't speak Japanese! It's embarrassing!" So that's when I told myself that I'd show how good I am by studying Japanese hard.”

Ifs Years Made Said Hard Shows Speak Simple Morning Study Groups Expression Quiet Members Years Ago Albums Interviews Japan Embarrassing Debut

Author:Seungri

“I saw Todd Bridges talk about being abused on Oprah. Something that he said, or an expression that he made that gave me that little boost I needed to be open about it and to talk about it as transparently as I did. When I told my wife, she couldn't believe it. She was petrified, because it's such a no-no, taboo, a hands-off subject. But I'd have to say hearing Todd Bridges on Oprah was my watershed moment.”

Believe Littles Made Said Moments Hands Saws Wife Subjects Expression Needed Hearing My Wife Bridges Taboo Boost Watersheds

Author:Sugar Ray Leonard

“There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'”

World Kind Said I Can Different Can Do Expression Selfishness Touched Different Kinds They Said Selflessness Economist Philanthropist Business World

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.”

Knows Said Artist Fighting Bits Expression One Day Bird Parks

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world's an orphan's home." And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, "Yes!" And I want to give people that feeling, too, of connection, communication.”

“I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

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