Top 222 Expressing Quotes

I don’t mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn’t a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.

I don’t feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

Talent is always more interesting – ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world’s terms.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

In times of joy and sorrow, love or hate, peace and unrest, music has always been an important outlet for expressing our emotions individually and as a nation.

I love being able to express myself through what I wear – and for it to be a way of expressing uniqueness and individuality.

I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there’s Italian, this strange, other component of me that I’ve just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it.

I’m okay with anybody expressing their rights.

For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.

I was absolutely astonished by an onslaught of comments expressing their absolute shock that IFLS is run by a woman.

Boxing was a way to express my anger. All of a sudden, I was expressing anger, and I was good at it. I was like a Jekyll and Hyde. Boxing helped me because I was fighting the anger out. I was knocking guys out.

The more comfortable I got onstage, the more comfortable I got expressing myself in a physical manner. And it almost shocked people – ‘Oh, is there something happening?’

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they’re here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it’s about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it’s not. It’s for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it’s just the most extreme version of that that I’ve ever found. It’s like running, it’s exertion.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

It’s important to have strong images of women out there, women who aren’t afraid of expressing themselves, women who aren’t afraid of taking chances, women who aren’t afraid of their own power.

Being dyslexic, creativity was my way of expressing myself.

Knowing how to paint and to use one’s colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

Acting, for me, was therapeutic. It was a way of expressing yourself.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is developing in Poland. Authors are somehow afraid of expressing what they really think or feel because they fear political consequences.

I remember seeing the performance Samantha Morton did in ‘Sweet and Low Down’ where she didn’t speak at all, and I loved it so much because she got to do so much work just by expressing herself in her body and her face. With expressions, it wasn’t necessary to speak. I find that appealing.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you’re playing through your own experience – so we’re all different.

President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize.’ It is hard to imagine anyone other than Mr. Trump expressing that sentiment.

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

I think we have great personalities in tennis, but I think they don’t dare anymore expressing their emotions and expressing who they are. It’s all about being politically correct all the time.

The most important parts of fashion to me are confidence and expressing who I am.

My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.

My parents were always supportive of me in terms of expressing myself artistically. Art, musical instruments, singing – whatever I did, they were just really supportive.

I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.

Children are there to go to school and I absolutely support their rights to have views about the world and I absolutely support them expressing themselves, but not during school.

Some media outlets refer to ‘protesters’ and ‘militia members,’ not ‘terrorists,’ even though armed antigovernment extremists seizing federal property and expressing a desire to kill and die is a textbook description of domestic terrorism.

I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it’s still marauding even though it’s no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I’ve finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician.

A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.

I am too conscious of being an American to accept public congratulation with good grace or to welcome it except as an occasion for expressing openly a shame which many Americans feel, day after day, helplessly and in silence.

I never had the time or luxury to think about inventing my own colour theory. When colour came, I was interested in expressing things that happened around me in time.

Empathy isn’t the same thing as expressing emotions. It’s not about sharing your feelings – it can be really uncomfortable if a parent cries or loses strength at the moment her daughter needs it most. The message sent is that you need to be taken care of, not the other way around.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight.

One notable feature is that English doesn’t have much of a system for expressing relative social status.

I hope that by just being a competent member and expressing informed views on issues that aren’t related to issues of LGBT equality, Republicans see me as a general asset.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Expressing myself is what I love most; not having enough time is what I hate about it… I keep to myself, though, when I am on tour, and focus on the tour.

We were just expressing stuff that happens in the ghetto, just being like reporters.

I always believe that expressing grief on social media isn’t enough, it is very important to take some action.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Dancing is one of the best ways of expressing yourself, and I definitely use it to release emotion.

Even relatively tolerant countries fine and jail people for expressing heterodox views. America uniquely protects speech.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don’t know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Psychodrama’ is a form of therapy and it is just expressing how you feel in whatever way is the most creative to you. Some people act it out, some people sing it out, people find their own different ways.

I have a hard time expressing myself when I’m emotional, so my family has done this forever. We write each other letters if we’re fighting or whatever. And my dad’s a writer, but we write each other letters because we feel that it’s easier to get out what you’re truly saying if you write it down.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

I think it’s not only Babymetal’s sound but also the fact that we dance to metal that represents a new way of expressing this genre of music.

Americans across the country are expressing their belief that the best chance for a better life in our country is with continued Republican control of the House, Senate, and the White House under President Trump.

I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it.

I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

Expressing myself is one of my strengths.

I was bookish and awkward and wanted a means of expressing the millions of emotions flying around inside me. The piano seemed as good an outlet as any.

When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.

Any ‘artist’ makes a living by expressing what others can’t – because they’re unaware of their feelings, they’re too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these strange things that girls talk about called feelings.

What I do is all about expressing myself, whether it’s music or the clothes I wear.

‘Heartbreak Heard Around the World’ is about me and my girl, and I’m just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I’m just kind of expressing my love for her.

Everyone has their way of expressing themselves. Fashion and style are very personal.

Art is a process. Its expressing yourself and doing something, and throwing yourself into it and getting better at it and trying again. Thats what its about.

It felt like dancing was my only way of expressing myself until I got into writing, and then I realized that there were two sides of my brain that I needed to work all the time.

The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.

I’m not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.

I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that’s always applied to our country – and rightly so.

I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.

My lyrics are about same-sex relationships, because that’s who I am. It was important to me that I felt comfortable expressing myself.

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

I don’t know what stops Indian athletes from expressing their thoughts freely, maybe it is the fear of repercussions.

In a climate where much of foreign policy is a direct function of domestic politics, focusing on what one doesn’t want is an easy way out of difficult conundrums for many world leaders. Expressing what one does want requires more courage.

The nature of the job of attorney general has changed – irrevocably. And we should never again have an attorney general, of either party, capable of expressing surprise at the role that national security issues now play in the life of the Justice Department or in the role of its chief.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

Americans are a lot more open, of course. There’s something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It’s a stereotype but it’s true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

The world is fortunate – for the time being, at least – that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America’s decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely cautious about expressing an opinion, let alone flexing its muscles.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Music is one way of expressing yourself, and fashion is another.

I announced my dissent in the Citizens United orally, and I stumbled in my announcement. I had a little difficulty expressing myself. And that was out of character.

Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It’s about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents’ influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions – art, music, sports, what have you.

Most of me expressing myself comes through my music more than what I wear.

Feeling good about your life, but not expressing a heartfelt ‘thank you,’ is like wrapping a gift for someone and never giving it to them.

Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts.

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It’s like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.

I get asked a lot if I’d want to get into live-action movies, and the answer, honestly, is ‘no.’ I’m an illustrator, and I think animation is an extension of that way of expressing myself. That’s not to say I’d never make a live-action movie, but I don’t strive for it.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Speaking freely can give you the basic rights of expressing your views and what you want to say without the fear of any inhibition. Unfortunately, our society doesn’t give this freedom to all.

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.

One important lesson I learned over and over is that, when you walk into any troubled organization, there is a delicate balance between expressing human empathy and yet not passively sweeping hard truths under the rug.

My goal is to give girls and boys a different idea of expression. It’s not always about looking pretty or cute. It’s about expressing yourself however that may be, even if that’s being silly or goofy or weird.

A helpful thing for me has always been – this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan – is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It’s a simple sentence that says, ‘I understand you; you don’t understand me.’

Clothing is so much a part of who we are; that’s our way of expressing ourselves.

My style mantra has been about expressing my mood for the day and it changes through the day.

Although he was a brilliant businessman, in my mind, Dick Spangler will best be remembered in our state for his commitment to education and what it means for lifting individuals out of poverty, giving them a path for learning, and expressing their individuality.

Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.

I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.

A song has a life of its own. It’s an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it’s subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn’t feel like wallowing.

I have no fears or inhibitions while composing. It’s a way of expressing myself.

I think the actual art of expressing yourself is a very important part of being human. And an important part of being a performer is understanding what it’s like to create yourself.

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common – timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don’t get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I’m not acting; I’m just expressing myself.

I don’t think of myself predicting things. I’m expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it’s a question of how badly people want them to.

Music is a way of expressing my mood, and it definitely helps to motivate me before a game. It also helps me move on from past defeats or keeps my mind busy when I’m not playing, so music is definitely something that follows me every step of every day.

There is a chapter in ‘Gentle Regrets’ called ‘Coming Home’ which is really me expressing my later admiration for my father’s public spirit.

‘Faces’ became more than a film. It became a way of life, a film against the authorities and the powers that prevent people from expressing themselves the way they want to, something that can’t be done in America, that can’t be done without money.

I tried to walk away from standup, but it’s been my therapy – my way of expressing anger, disappointments, and fears and celebrating my hopes. It helps to regulate my thought process.

We are providing a platform to creators who are expressing their emotions; they are expressing what they are feeling – fears, joys, terror. That’s what art is about, and we don’t want to censor it, but neither would we permit violence which feels gratuitous or glorified to be on our platform.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, which people don’t seem to be shy about expressing.

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character’s voice when writing fiction.

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

Love is everything for me. It’s the way of life. It’s the way of expressing and way of breathing for me.

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

I love the idea of embracing your curves and loving yourself while expressing it through fashion.

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

There are consequences for just expressing generally conservative views. And if those views take on the more extreme dint, the judgment can be swift.

Music is everything. Evidence of the divine. The possibility of man to be good. The possibility of improving our surroundings and expressing ourselves. All of these things are collapsed together in my mind.

A society in which people feel they have a legitimate right to stop someone expressing their views on campus simply because they are unfashionable or unpopular is rather chilling.

Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that’s completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

Whether it’s people walking off ‘The View’ when Bill O’Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.

Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.

Design has become a universal medium for expressing ideas, raising fundamental questions, and addressing social challenges.

I’ve always known what I’ve wanted, but I used to be shy about expressing that in regards to my career. So I’ve become a lioness. If something’s happening that I don’t necessarily feel comfortable about, I will speak my mind. Or if I want to do something, I go for it.

Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you’re up-and-coming or you’ve been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it’s a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It’s one of my great loves.

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

I was pretty locked up emotionally as a kid – my family situation was tumultuous. But I was extroverted. So when I was in pain, I would tell jokes instead of expressing myself.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I think expressing yourself and working hard can’t help but have great results. Look at Zach Galifanakis. He didn’t tweet. He didn’t have a podcast. He just went out and did the funniest standup you’ll ever see in your life. And he was rewarded for that.

With rapping, that’s just another form of expressing your music. Whether you’re going to rap, you’re going to sing, it’s whatever you want.

Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

On my first night at boarding school, I felt entirely alone. I was shocked, frightened and intensely homesick, but I soon discovered that expressing these emotions, instead of bringing help and consolation, attracted a gloating, predatory fascination.

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who’s trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.

I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.

I have no problem with people expressing their opinion as long as it is with respect.

If you’re playing a cop in a modern film, you don’t have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There’s a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.

The modern artist… is working and expressing an inner world – in other words – expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

I made an instant connection with boxing right away. Boxing became such a part of me. I ate boxing, I slept boxing, I lived boxing. Boxing was a way of expressing myself because I was not that outspoken.

I am an independent person expressing myself.

I like clothes. And I think it’s OK to think about clothes just so long as you also think about other things. I’m not interested in clothes to the point where they’ll push other things out of my mind; I just see them as a way of expressing yourself, and a pleasure, really.

Makeup and fashion are a very blatant way of expressing who you are because it’s the first thing people see. With music, it’s more personal, where people really are trying to get into your head and learn about who you are.

My background’s Arab and I’m quite fiery, stubborn and used to shouting and expressing myself quite loudly, and Inez and I have our little fall-outs as mum and daughters do.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.

I never thought I am a stylish. For me, style is always a representation of what you want to wear but doing it in a unique way and expressing yourself. Every girl loves to be stylish.

Sometimes you’ll have a heckler who’s actually attempting to be supportive, but you don’t realize it. Their way of expressing it is kind of confusing.

I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real bands and real instruments and expressing themselves that way instead of with computers and technology.

Growing up, I wasn’t as comfortable expressing myself as I am now, and I think that’s why I chose acting: because it’s acceptable to have your feelings. It’s a place that they want you to feel. Whereas in life, growing up, it was ‘Be quiet!’ and ‘Keep it to yourself.’

My mindset as an athlete and as a man is to accept what God is asking me to do and to live my life expressing God’s word.

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

Speaking out, sharing what you think, and expressing yourself – regardless of sexuality or anything else – is the most important thing you can do as a man, as a human.

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don’t do it to seek anybody’s approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.

The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.

Espresso, made by steam expressing finely ground coffee, is rich in flavor and aroma and chlorogenic acids, but not very concentrated at all in caffeine.

Being beautiful isn’t everything… Sometimes it’s interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I’m expressing now is for the first time.

Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It’s the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

I was always interested in the fringes of culture and society and in expressing myself in a distinctively different way, like always rooting for the underdog, that kind of thing.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion – very powerful emotions. That’s what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and – people identify with that.

I love the physicality of my job and how my mind and body are most happy when I’m expressing and moving. My face was always secondary to body alignment and the dynamism of making a moment come alive.

He just had a very unique way of expressing himself physically with his kids.

As for the drag thing, we each do it in different ways and for different reasons. For me, it’s kinda about expressing a side of myself that’s always in there but usually doesn’t come out. Mostly because I’m too lazy to look that good every day.

Comedians who aren’t screenwriters are telling jokes that they themselves think are funny. They’re expressing their own view of what they think funny is.

I’m expressing myself by acting. I’m learning about myself and making a living. I hope to do much more of it, so I can contribute my share to the world.

Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you’re not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.

I don’t consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings, and music is the same way; you can see what other people are going through.

I was always into pop music, Destiny’s Child, songs with catchy music. Even when I was writing when I was younger, it wasn’t all about expressing myself; it was just about making fun music.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.

Mice are very difficult to do front on, but they have nicely human little hands and feet, and whiskers and tails are great for expressing emotion.

I’ve been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and you can’t stop anyone from expressing their thoughts.

Music is about expressing, not impressing.

Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I’d still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I’ve gotten to really love acting. And I’ve gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it’s like playing my kid. I can’t imagine deliberately stopping.

There’s a guy I used to pay to work with me who’d call me ‘kiddo.’ I said, ‘There’s nothing that justifies you expressing that to me, your boss.’

I think children in general have a very hard time – at least I did – expressing any pain because I didn’t want to hurt the people that I loved.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

When someone says that I’m angry it’s actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I’d write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

Fidelity to the subject’s thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It’s a way of expressing our humanity.

It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you’re not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

You don’t have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

I’m not sure I have a natural gift. I think it’s just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they’ve been raised, and I’ve always been expressive.

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

How is it reasonable that in a country purporting to be a democracy, I am not permitted to speak freely? Why, as a politician, should I be banned from expressing political opinions? Why, as a student of history, can I not present the facts as I see them, without fear of reprisal?

I think the music defends myself. I don’t think anyone should put a race on any genre. It’s just a way of expressing yourself through instruments and sounds, right? People can just listen to the music.

When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.

Expressing and loving myself is often so much more complex than ‘out’ affords me.

Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you’re going to get all cut up in a movie.

Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity.

I don’t feel real confident expressing myself except when I’m writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.

I’m here to break boundaries, man. That’s all. I’m here to be the first so that the people after me don’t have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.

There are times when you might have a bad training session or a bad day, and although I would often go to a team-mate to have a chat if that were the case, it’s also great to have the option of expressing your thoughts in a journal if you don’t want to bother anyone.

I’ve written what and when I want to. It’s been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.

I’m not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper.

I was born in ’77 and the ’90s was really when I started expressing myself in fashion.

Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don’t just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.

If there’s intelligence behind an opinion, then I’m all for expressing it, but I would never just start a fight with someone for the sake of it – that’s just not me.

I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that was what I was made of.

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there’s a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.