Expression Quotes

The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?

Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn’t elicit laughter.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

Each role you play, they set a bar of challenges that you meet. And in the past, I’ve played characters that emotionally expressed themselves a bit more in a physical way. It was a joy, actually.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.