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Expression Quotes
"Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production."
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"As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor."
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"Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality."
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"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']"
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"You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something."
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"To feel everything in every way; to be able to think with the emotions and feel with the mind; not to desire much except with the imagination; to suffer with haughtiness; to see clearly so as to write accurately; to know oneself through diplomacy and dissimulation; to become naturalized as a different person, with all the necessary documents; in short, to use all sensations but only on the inside, peeling them all down to God and then wrapping everything up again and putting it back in the shop window like the sales assistant I can see from here with the small tins of a new brand of shoe polish."
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"Even in silence a heart can scream."
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"It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression."
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"I am a massive slag!" I think to myself, in a motivational way. "I'm a Lady Sex Adventuress! I'm a Pirate of Privates! I'm a swashfuckler!" ... I think of "Teenage Whore" by Courtney Love as my personal anthem."
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"As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't."
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"There's no self-expression or joy in these joints-- no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking your clothes off. Why do many people have a gut reaction to strip clubs? Because inside them, no one is having fun."
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"Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening."
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"Words make known. But we live in the unknown."
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"I wish to Heaven I was married,' she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. 'I'm tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I'm tired of acting like I don't eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I'm tired of saying, 'How wonderful you are!' to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it... I can't eat another bite."
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"If words come upon our minds, we should express them in order to free ourselves from high anxiety."
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"What a gulf between impression and expression! That's our ironic fate-to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse-touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash."
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"I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I'm actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that's really embarrassing."
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"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."
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"America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?"
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"We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects."
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"The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it."
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"I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him."
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"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."
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"Me: 'All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel."
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"I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world."
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"Trying to explain feelings that are foreign to your heart, make communication daunting, even frightful. How does one express sensations that cower in the corners, fearful they will not be accepted by their inspiration?"
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"To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken."
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"The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression."
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"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
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"Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in."
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"Words are not brains, you know."
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"Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer."
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"When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: 'This is for my benefit."
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"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words."
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"To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet."
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"The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically."
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"How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression."
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"Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic."
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"You are the expression of consciousness, your thoughts are the expression of you."
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"Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away."
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"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."
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"A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun."
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"I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else."
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"Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?"
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"Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences."
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"Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best."
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"And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking."
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"Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears."
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