Quotes and Sayings About Expression

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
-- A. B. Yehoshua

#Expression #Desire #Boundaries

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Expression #Cities #Imagination

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#Expression #Perception #Way

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
-- Abbie Cornish

#Artist #Expression #Creative

The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Time #Expression #Limits

If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush

#Expression #People #Identity

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
-- Abe Fortas

#Teacher #Rights #Expression

Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.
-- Abe Fortas

#Acceptance #Organization #Expression

In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.
-- Abe Fortas

#School #Expression #Order

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Communication #Expression #Language

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.
-- Ada Lovelace

#Numbers #Expression #Musical

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Stupid #Expression #Cowardice

Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...
-- Adolf Hitler

#Attitude #Expression #Creative

In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.
-- Adolph Gottlieb

#Powerful #Expression #Violence

We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
-- Adyashanti

#Expression #Realization #Consumers

People who think of children's nudity as a tool don't need freedom of expression.
-- Agnes Chan

#Children #Thinking #Expression

Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.
-- Agnes Denes

#Writing #Expression #Trying

David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.
-- Agrippina Vaganova

#Dance #Expression #Technique

It will appeal to girls who are confident and have a strong personal expression of style and identity in the way that they dress and what this says about themselves.
-- Agyness Deyn

#Girl #Strong #Expression

We should leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war, and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern, and good intentions.
-- Ai Weiwei

#War #Expression #Ignorant

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
-- Ai Weiwei

#Responsibility #Rights #Expression

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.
-- Ai Weiwei

#Art #Expression #Skills

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
-- Ai Weiwei

#Art #Fighting #Expression

With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Real #Fire #Expression

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.
-- Akira Yoshizawa

#Expression #Joy #Desire

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
-- Al Stewart

#Running #Rain #Expression

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
-- Alain de Botton

#Happiness #Emotional #Expression

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage

#Expression #Greek #Devil

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
-- Alan Bennett

#Business #Expression #Favour

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
-- Alan Bennett

#Expression #Freedom Of Speech #Given