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Expression Quotes
"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."
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"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."
33
"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."
31
"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."
19
"Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind."
10
"I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression."
9
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
8
"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
8
"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
6
"Creativity is leading the life king-size, despite you being a pauper!"
6
"You are the expression of consciousness, your thoughts are the expression of you."
6
"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."
6
"Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear."
6
"It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head."
6
"There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth."
5
"With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public."
5
"My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way."
5
"The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans."
5
"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."
5
"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
5
"America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel."
5
"Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production."
5
"Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression."
5
"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."
5
"When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me."
5
"Wittgenstein likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But skilfully using our hands and manipulating our thoughts can be plausible options to make ourselves understood. So, if we can't say it, we can show and depict it. Whereof we cannot speak we can paint! ['Happy days are back again']"
5
"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."
5
"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."
5
"Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours."
5
"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."
4
"Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare."
4
"Singing your own songs is all about individual expression."
4
"Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics."
4
"Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer."
4
"Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality."
4
"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."
4
"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."
4
"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."
4
"I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!"
3
"In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry."
3
"We are only writing the history of our time."
3
"Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. All cheer for Shakespearean insults."
3
"Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively."
3
"George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression."
3
"From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true."
3
"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."
3
"That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression."
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