Quotes by category:Expression

The picture of me is nearly finished, and I think it is magnificent. The green and blue of the dress is splendid, and the expression as Lady Macbeth holds the crown over her head is quite wonderful.

expression blue thinking

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man i... by Elizabeth Gilbert

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

Elizabeth Gilbert

demon expression men

To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell half the story: one also has to consider that the erotic impulse, ever pressing for satisfaction, had something to do with making the history that encouraged its expression.

erotic expression self

Affirm the body, beautiful and whole, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Affirm the body, beautiful and whole,

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

soul expression beautiful

A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.

Elsie Clews Parsons

divorce personality expression

The wages of sin are an expensive infection. by Elvis Costello

The wages of sin are an expensive infection.

wages sin expression

Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German se... by Elvis Costello

Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

three expression letters

Your eyes have died, but you see more than I. by Elton John

Your eyes have died, but you see more than I.

died eye expression

Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until th... by Elton John

Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.

expression rain wind

Sleeping with forgiveness in your heart for me. by Elvis Costello

Sleeping with forgiveness in your heart for me.

expression sleep heart

I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.

adults accepting expression

It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine. by Elton John

It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.

wine expression trying

Take me to the pilot of your soul. by Elton John

Take me to the pilot of your soul.

pilots soul expression

I think that's almost what it is sometimes if you sum up what acting is. It's just the ultimate expression of empathy.

empathy expression thinking

C'mon, let's get real, real gone. by Elvis Presley

C'mon, let's get real, real gone.

real expression gone

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right... by Emma Goldman

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

expression self beautiful

I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive.

strong expression men

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

expression peace people

When the mind changes the outer expression must change to correspond. We are transferred by the renewing of our minds.

expression mind

Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.

expression law moving