Top 60 Expresses Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Expresses Quotes from famous people such as Richard Rodgers, Wole Soyinka, Victor Hugo, Naseeruddin Shah, Alice Walker, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful

I don’t believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it’s the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist ‘expresses’ himself.
Richard Rodgers
There’s a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it’s being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
Wole Soyinka
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
An actor’s job is to find variations of the same emotion in his being so that every time he expresses grief or joy, it doesn’t look the same.
Naseeruddin Shah
‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
Alice Walker
There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?
Angela Duckworth
Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.
Honoré Daumier
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
Alice Walker
I’m always thinking about time. That’s one of themes I return to in my work, the way the past bears on the present, the way that time is not linear, and how that expresses itself in people’s everyday lives.
Jesmyn Ward
Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.
Gianni Versace
Well, I think when one has got beliefs and expresses and communicates them then one also radiates some kind of freedom that some people might not dare having.
Bill Kaulitz
Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.
Moshe Safdie
Lee Dam is a character who expresses her feelings honestly. I thought we had a lot in common and I’ve always wanted to play a confident character like her.
Lee Hye-ri
Pop music might seem banal and simple to some people, but it’s what it expresses that counts.
Richard Ashcroft
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society’s feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
Juan Goytisolo
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Henry Miller
The sound of a mother’s voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.
Montserrat Caballe
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
William Drummond
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Karl Marx
I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I’m so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.
James Brown
Language expresses people’s thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
Walter Lang
A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt ‘Don’t bother me – I’ve got important work to do.’
Daniel Goleman
I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want – this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.
Alva Noto
The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.
Polly Berrien Berends
I like music that expresses what I think.
Ludovico Einaudi
I’m a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life’s milestones.
Joely Fisher
That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is that this universal aspect of human nature persists no matter what economic system is in place; it merely expresses itself in different forms.
Thomas Woods
‘One Yellow Daffodil’ is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.
David A. Adler
There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I think that it is a feminine instrument, so when I do not sing, the music expresses my voice.
Paulina Rubio
Enthusiasm is always an interesting spectacle. When it expresses itself with an honest and artless eloquence, it is difficult to listen to it and not, in some degree, to catch the flame.
William Godwin
My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'T

My proposition is that music is at the heart of what ‘The Magic Flute’ means: that it’s Mozart’s music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can’t be expressed otherwise.
Simon McBurney
Anyone who expresses anti-Semitic ideas in Poland is like a person who steps on a grave – a despicable act in Polish culture.
Andrzej Duda
The root of disaster means a star coming apart, and no image expresses better the look in a patient’s eyes when hearing a neurosurgeon’s diagnosis.
Paul Kalanithi
If someone in a powerful position acts in a certain way or expresses a certain view, we implicitly assume that those actions and views are associated with power, and that emulating them may be to our advantage.
Maria Konnikova
I think that David Lynch, he lives in a zone, and he expresses that zone to us with everything he does.
Michael J. Anderson
God’s word is always effective and produces whatever it expresses. My words, on the contrary, cannot create anything; I can only change what already is into something else.
Mother Angelica
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Isadora Duncan
Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses itself in nearly the same form always.
Isabella Bird
First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.
George Pataki
Writing is writing to me. I’m incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I’ve done everything – historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I’ll write. It’s the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.
Geraldine McCaughrean
I grew up with Tagore and nobody ever expresses the emotion of love like he did and he understood women so well. He is the perfect man everybody dreams of, including me.
Riya Sen
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Oscar Wilde
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Gaston Bachelard
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Maria Mitchell
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel Adams
For me, I’ve been doing comedy for a long time, and I love it and have no regrets, but ‘Chernobyl’ expresses a side of me that is far more true to who I am on a day to day basis.
Craig Mazin
Creating a personal space with individual items that you love is so much easier on the wallet and really expresses your creativity.
Sussanne Khan
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Benjamin Disraeli
Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.
Steven Tyler
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
Haile Selassie
I’m a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that’s great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.
Danica Patrick
The Russian revolution is one of history’s car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.
Kathryn Harrison
What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.
John Edgar Wideman
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus
The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government… Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
Feisal Abdul Rauf