Top 506 Expresses Quotes & Sayings

Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.

Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at his adolescent self, a self he feels was unacceptable. With bravado, he expresses regret that he didn't rack up more sexual conquests in his teens; in person, he expresses a truer regret that he was intimidated by life itself.

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.

The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.

One cannot conquer the evil in himself by resisting it ... but by transmuting its energies into other forms. The energy that expresses itself in the form of evil is the same energy which expresses itself in the form of good; and thus the one may be transmuted into the other.

Nothing expresses lack of inner confidence like bluster.

The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees

There are many different forms of bipolar and the way that it expresses itself.

I like music that expresses what I think.

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

I'd like to become a singer who expresses myself more openly.

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.

The way you think either expresses or undermines faith.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a new style expresses itself. The similarity of these examples to the new creations in art consists in the same striving for clear, pure form which expresses truth in the objects.

What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.

Strangely enough a lot of my ideals are christian in a sense but I don't like the way that religion is portrayed in America but, I think, the album "Antichrist Superstar" really expresses, when you look at the lyrics it expresses, how I feel. I mean it's based in individuality and, strength and believe in yourself, believe in, you're your own god.

Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

Action expresses priorities.

Art expresses man.

The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes

It really expresses a man in pain.

Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

I love myself and the bearded lady is fun and expresses everything I feel.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.

For me, the voice expresses things that there are just no other ways to express.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.

The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.

I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds

I can't improve on how the Bible expresses itself, so I don't even try.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.