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“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

“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

“The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about his environment and the forces by which he is surrounded, gives life its meaning and purpose, and clothes it with final dignity.... And yet we know, deep in our hearts, that knowledge is not enough.... Unless we can anchor our knowledge to moral purposes, the ultimate result will be dust and ashes- dust and ashes that will bury the hopes and monuments of men beyond recovery.”

“Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.”

Giving May Minutes Expression Conversation Lifetime Repeats Superficial Vacuity

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

“In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.”

Giving Lying Expression Generosity Giving Back Potency Art Of Loving

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.”

People Giving Kind Body Faces Expression Familiar Typical Portraits Portraiture

Book:Degas by Degas

Source: Degas by Degas

“What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.”

Giving Stills Lines Space Painting Expression Materials Paint Quests Manuals Still Life Tactile Cubism

Author:Georges Braque

“We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.”

Giving Values Emotion Moral Expression Organization Weight Practicals Invention Aesthetic Arousal

Author:Lewis Mumford

“A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art.”

Giving Art Ideas Whole School Form Successful Heard Expression Foundation Works Of Art Select Obscurity Languish

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.”

“I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room.”

Giving Heart Littles Rooms Brain Expression My Heart Standing Stranger Spots Vacation

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“She gives the night its dreams.”

Giving Dream Night Expression

Author:Chris Cornell

“Sweet head, give you sweet head.”

Giving Sweet Expression

Author:David Bowie

“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