#expression

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. ↗

— Eugene Wigner

#complexities #expression #language #laws #natural

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#artistic expression #different #expression #find #having

They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#gestures #love #lovers #lust #love

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #ibsen #moroseness #sombre-mood #unhappiness

OMG OMG OMG, Shane is totally crushing on the new roomie! I can’t believe it. I always pictured Shane going after blond beach hotties. Who knew he liked big brains and teeny little bodies? Although, to be fair, she is cute as a button. (Why do we say that? What’s so cute about a button, anyway?) ↗

— Rachel Caine

#cute

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#paraphrased #self-expression #death

Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#expression #feelings #humor #inspirational #learning

I am hungry for power, but not to lord over others; only to own myself. ↗

— Deborah Feldman

#freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-religion #hunger #jewish #jews

Romantic Egoist Nozomi: You've got an idea in your head... how you should act, but you can't act like, so you stifle yourself and don't even try. ↗

— Bisco Hatori

#self-expression #yourself #love

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#men-and-women #men