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.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.
~By El Lissitzky ~
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
~By Fay Weldon ~
Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
~By Gustave Courbet ~
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
~By Timothy Thomas Fortune ~
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
~By Ann Rule ~
As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
~By Richard Pryor ~
There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
~By Ralph Marston ~
Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
~By Ornette Coleman ~
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
~By Roman Polanski ~
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
~By Charles Eames ~
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
~By William Scott ~
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
~By Kate Adie ~
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
~By William Hazlitt ~
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
~By Walt Whitman ~
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
~By Claude Debussy ~
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
~By Lord Hailsham ~
It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
~By Edward Hopper ~
You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
~By Donald Judd ~
But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
~By John McCain ~
David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
~By Lance Loud ~
You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.
~By Arthur Scargill ~
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
~By Ansel Adams ~
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.
~By Henry Williamson ~
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
~By Donald Judd ~
I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.
~By Wayne Kramer ~
That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.
~By Josiah Royce ~
I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
~By Ted Rall ~
You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
~By Ted Olson ~
I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.
~By Lucien Bouchard ~
I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.
~By Markus Wolf ~
Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
~By Paul Klee ~
Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
~By Holly Near ~
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.
~By Paul Ricoeur ~
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
~By Billy Joel ~
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
~By Max Jacob ~
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
~By Hall Caine ~
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.
~By Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.
~By John Goodman ~
I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.
~By Marie Corelli ~
A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.
~By John L. Phillips ~
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
~By Edward Sapir ~
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.
~By Jo Brand ~
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
~By Jim Hodges ~
I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.
~By Angie Stone ~
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
~By Benjamin Cardozo ~
The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.
~By John Drinkwater ~
"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
~By Jane Addams ~
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
~By David Hockney ~
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.
~By Josef Albers ~
What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.
~By Karl Rahner ~
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
~By Walt Whitman ~
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
~By Deepak Chopra ~
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
~By Diogenes ~
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
~By C. Day Lewis ~
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
~By Gunter Grass ~
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
~By Vera Brittain ~
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
~By James Allen ~
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
~By Calvin Trillin ~
In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.
~By Arthur C. Brooks ~
The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.
~By Eric San ~
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
~By Eugene Wigner ~
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
~By Ayn Rand ~
As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.
~By Alexander Kluge ~
That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.
~By Geddy Lee ~
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