#expression

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. ↗

— George Eliot

#eloquent #except #expression #indifference

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#beyond #character #create #expressions #feeling

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark. ↗

— Mario Batali

#conversations #door #ever #expressions #family

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. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#condition #creature #expression #heartless #once

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails ↗

— Steve Aylett

#expression #humor #life #love #art

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman. ↗

— Donald Judd

#just #me #newman #pollock #radical

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#changing #curves #described #expression #movement

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression. ↗

— Jack Dee

#because #cheered #corner #did #expression

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. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#among #dolls #enormous #expressions #facial

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#better #could #doctrine #experiences #expression