It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Karl Kraus

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
James Dean

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
James Dean

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Alexis de Tocqueville

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl S. Buck

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Henri Matisse

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
Marlo Thomas

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.
Mark Rothko

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.
Giorgio Armani

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
Franz Liszt

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
Ben Harper

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.
Jean Cocteau

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
Bernard Baruch

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
Rowan Atkinson

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.
Justin Timberlake

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
E. M. Forster

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
Thomas Hardy

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy