The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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.
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
It is very unnatural to dance while playing the violin. I had to practice so hard to learn how to do it, but now it is part of my expression, and it comes naturally. I have to know a song perfectly before I can even begin to move.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.
Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by government interference and increasingly global in reach. But the Chinese government has shown that the Internet can be successfully filtered and controlled.
With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.
The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.
Men are not usually forthcoming in the expression of their emotions.
Online communities are an expression of loneliness.
Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.
To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.
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.
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual struck me as nothing but a flowery front for the fulfilment of countless, tedious contracts and obligations.
Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
