#expression

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. ↗

— Richard Powers

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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. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#another #character #earn #emotional #expression

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#finds #literary #literature #wisdom

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. ↗

— George Steiner

#being #brain #expression #heart #human

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. ↗

— Paul Claudel

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Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#big #cost #each #error #expression

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#embracing #expression #hip-hop

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#recognition #sympathy #very #well

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation. ↗

— Ethel Rosenberg

#appears #beyond #comment #detail #difficult

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #easy #everybody