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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."
65
"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."
57
"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."
50
"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."
33
"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."
32
"Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind."
26
"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
25
"Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear."
22
"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
21
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
20
"I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression."
20
"We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.Even when we're sleeping,There's no escape from this obsession."
20
"Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose."
20
"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."
20
"Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours."
20
"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."
19
"Creativity is leading the life king-size, despite you being a pauper!"
19
"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."
19
"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."
19
"A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world, it just blooms."
18
"The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans."
18
"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."
18
"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."
18
"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced."
18
"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."
17
"George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression."
17
"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."
17
"With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public."
17
"For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality."
17
"When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression."
17
"Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression."
17
"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."
17
"I mean every word of my divine chaos."
17
"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."
17
"My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way."
16
"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."
16
"Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star."
16
"Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?"
16
"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."
16
"It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head."
16
"Singing your own songs is all about individual expression."
15
"But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression."
15
"America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel."
15
"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."
15
"There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic."
15
"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."
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