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  Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Perfect, Silence, Definitions

  Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5

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• What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.

  Michelle Sagara

  Trust, Fear, Safe

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Cast in Silence”, p.51, LUNA

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• The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Sublime, Infinite

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• One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.

  Paul Cezanne

  Mean, Submissive, Sincere

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• Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

  Edgard Varese

  Mean, Science, Needs

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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• God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Made, Should

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• Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

  Judy Holliday

  People, Theatre, Acting

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• 'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

  Winston Churchill

  Quiet, Splendid, Comment

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• 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.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Roots, Tree

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.435, e-artnow

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• Understate and over-prove.

  Frank Bettger

  Prove

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• A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Artist, Style, Use

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• 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.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Motherhood, Abuse, Morality

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

  Alexander Kluge

  Thinking, People, Library

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• What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.

  Joe Grant

  Inspiration, Ease, Manipulation

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• My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

  Richard Foreman

  Twilight, Gdp, Civilization

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• 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.

  Jo Brand

  Smile, Years, Style

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

  Paul Cezanne

  Mean, Artist, Painter

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• Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Personality, Temperament

  Hans Hofmann (1980). “Hans Hofmann, 1880-1966: A Special Exhibition of Major Paintings to Mark the Centennial of the Artist's Birth : December 13-January 13, 1981, André Emmerich Gallery, New York”

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• 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.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Lying, Simplicity

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• Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

  Karl Barth

  Life, Grace, Inspirational Life

  "An Introduction to Protestant Theology". Book by Helmut Gollwitzer, 1982.

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• 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

  Charles Ives

  Soul, World, May

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.19, 1st World Publishing

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• At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Safe Haven, Emotional, Self

  "'92 Olympian Yamaguchi balances road, family". Interview with Suzanne Riss, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2010.

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

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  People, Cinema, Littles

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• A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

  Georges Rouault

  Character, Sky, Tree

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• Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Entrepreneur, Profit, Enterprise

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.153, Transaction Publishers

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