Quotes of: Expression Keyword

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

Orson Welles

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

Peter Ackroyd

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

Patricia Ireland

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

Paul Ricoeur

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

P. F. Strawson

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

Paul Verhoeven

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

Rob Bell

What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader.

Robertson Davies

The fear of loving a dog, is knowing one day they’ll be gone and you could never find eyes that express all that you feel.

Robert M. Drake

Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.

Robin Flower

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

Stanford Moore

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

Susan Minot

When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in.

Suzy Menkes

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

Salman Rushdie

I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.

Sara Sheridan

Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.

Sophie Scholl

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.

Susan Sontag

I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.

Tom Daschle

The renewal and beauty of nature is awesome to behold, but the magnificent beauty and power of the pristine Soul is beyond the expression of mere words.

Tom Hackett

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing, but a compromise- that which is common to you, me, and everybody.

Thomas Hulme

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

Tahar Ben Jelloun