In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.
~By Yukihiro Matsumoto ~
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
~By Paul Claudel ~
The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
~By Earl Warren ~
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.
~By Andrew Shue ~
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
~By Alfred Stieglitz ~
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.
~By Henry Williamson ~
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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 ~
Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based on those notes as written and nothing else - has to be divined.
~By Claude Arrau ~
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 ~
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
~By Henri Matisse ~
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 ~
Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.
~By Thurston Moore ~
Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
~By George Farquhar ~
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
~By Michael Jackson ~
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
~By Franz Liszt ~
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 ~
When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
~By Casey Affleck ~
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.
~By James Galway ~
Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
~By Richard Pryor ~
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
~By Anne Edwards ~
You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
~By Thomas Mann ~
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
~By Henry Miller ~
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.
~By Johannes Stark ~
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.
~By Judith Wright ~
I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
~By Bill Bryson ~
Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
~By Mario Vargas Llosa ~
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
~By Georg Baselitz ~
Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
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 ~
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
~By Edward Sapir ~
The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.
~By Eliot Engel ~
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 ~
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 ~
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
~By Eugene Wigner ~
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
~By Marlon Brando ~
I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.
~By Little Richard ~
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
~By James Allen ~
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Eric Cantor ~
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
~By Judy Holliday ~
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
~By Jane Addams ~
I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
~By Emmet Fox ~
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
~By Herbert Marcuse ~
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.
~By Liev Schreiber ~
From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.
~By Vince McMahon ~
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
~By Mary Ritter Beard ~
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
~By Franz Marc ~
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
~By John Drinkwater ~
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
~By Jeffrey Tate ~
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
~By George Steiner ~
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
~By Bruce Lee ~
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
~By Yves Saint Laurent ~
Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
~By Otto Von Bismarck ~
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.
~By Charles Ives ~
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.
~By Elfriede Jelinek ~
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
~By Edward Hopper ~
Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
~By Joseph Jarman ~
The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.
~By Michael Schenker ~
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
~By Guy Debord ~
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
~By Don DeLillo ~
My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
~By Claude Debussy ~
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
~By Thomas Bowdler ~
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.
~By Emma Goldman ~
Of every noble work the silent part is best, of all expression that which can not be expressed.
~By William Wetmore Story ~
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 ~
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
~By Holly Near ~
You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
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