It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
Elsie De Wolfe

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

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
Walter Lang

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Benjamin Disraeli

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
Charles Munch

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
Paul Ricoeur

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
C. Day Lewis

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
Mary Austin

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Soren Kierkegaard

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
Brad Holland

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Karl Marx

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil Gibran

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.
Polly Berrien Berends

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
William Drummond

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
Wole Soyinka

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

Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.
Javier Solana