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Expression Quotes
"Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices."
83
"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."
67
"There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world."
62
"Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed."
46
"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."
42
"Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind."
33
"Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to."
31
"I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage."
30
"I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression."
29
"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
29
"Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that."
29
"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."
28
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
28
"Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: thus speaks the immemorial language of gestures."
28
"Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear."
28
"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
27
"Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose."
26
"It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head."
26
"The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans."
25
"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced."
25
"Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours."
25
"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."
25
"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint."
24
"Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun."
24
"The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it."
24
"Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner."
24
"The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute."
24
"A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world, it just blooms."
23
"Creativity is leading the life king-size, despite you being a pauper!"
23
"Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else's is unhygienic."
23
"Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on."
23
"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."
22
"George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression."
22
"With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public."
22
"Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression."
22
"For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality."
22
"That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy. We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. We were tinpan alleycats, but the gift of music had been withheld. We could not sing along, though we always knew the words. Still, defiantly, we roared our tuneless roars, we fell off the high notes and were trampled by the low ones. And if bitter ices were the consequence, well, there were worse fates in the world than that."
22
"We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.Even when we're sleeping,There's no escape from this obsession."
22
"I mean every word of my divine chaos."
22
"Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me."
21
"My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way."
21
"Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it."
21
"Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression."
21
"His words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness."
21
"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."
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