#presses

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#expresses #life #live #live life #living

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#anyone #believe #expresses #jazz #me

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #being alone #expresses #glory #loneliness

I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#always #character #collaboration #exaggerates #i

The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects. ↗

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

#aspirations #divorce #equal #expects #her

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#big #future #huge #lies #medium-sized

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#before #dollars #expresses #i #me

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. ↗

— Alice Walker

#best #could #expresses #extreme #gratitude

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. ↗

— Alice Walker

#comes #correctly #culture #describe #does

I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness. ↗

— Anne Heche

#big mouth #bit #expresses #i #life