Expressions Quotes

“It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess on the Brink

“OMG OMG OMG, Shane is totally crushing on the new roomie! I can’t believe it. I always pictured Shane going after blond beach hotties. Who knew he liked big brains and teeny little bodies? Although, to be fair, she is cute as a button. (Why do we say that? What’s so cute about a button, anyway?)”
― Rachel Caine, Glass Houses

“They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“He frowned. She laughed. He brightened. She pouted. He grinned. She flinched. Come on: we don’t do that. Except when we’re pretending. Only babies frown and flinch. The rest of us just fake with our fake faces.
He grinned. No He didn’t. If a guy grins at you for real these days, you’d better chop his head off before he chops off yours. Soon the sneeze and the yawn will be mostly for show. Even the twitch.
She laughed. No she didn’t. We laugh about twice a year. Most of us have lost our laughs and now make do with false ones.
He smiled.
Not quite true.
All that no good to think, no good to say, no good to write. All that no good to write.”
― Martin Amis, London Fields

“God can take the ordinary and create the extraordinary. Our incredible God has the power to transform your simple life and give you the life of your dreams. Remarkable things happen in your life when you believe.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

“Either way, the whole thing was a pain in the porpoise.”
― Alan Bradley, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

“Self-confidence doesn’t require tailored expressions at all times; instead, it expresses itself in different interesting ways.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Smile wide to receive many smiles in return. But if you want a good laugh, smirk like a wicked, little imp and watch the range of expressions you're flashed.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“I'm not the first one to point out that George Lucas used plastic helmets to cover the faces of the storm troopers in Star Wars, in order to make them more inhuman, as their eyes and faces were not visible. In our times, we are getting a more modern version of Lucas's Stormtroopers, thanks to the popular nerve toxin Botox. This is something more and more people who are past their middle age are happily injecting into themselves - more specifically, into their faces. Botox causes local paralysis (it is a nerve toxin, after all), which smoothes out wrinkles. Unfortunately, it also means you can no longer use some of your facial muscles, as you are paralyzed. This means you're not only getting the skin of a Barbie doll, you're getting its range of facial expressions too.”
― Henrik Fexeus, The Art of Reading Minds

“To believe that the experiences we have are valid, that the feelings and expressions of them are true and real and worthy of being listened to, is one of the greatest mercies we offer each other.”
― Alia Joy, Glorious Weakness: Discovering God in All We Lack

“Every day the material world mistreats me. My sensibility is like a flame in the wind. I walk down the street and I see in the faces of the passers-by, not their real expressions, but the expressions they would wear if they knew about my life and how I am, if the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul were made transparent in my gestures and in my face. In the eyes that avoid mine I suspect a mockery I find only natural, aimed at the inelegant exception I represent in a world that takes pleasure in things and in activity and, in the depths of these passing physiognomies, I imagine and interpose an awareness of the timid nature of my life that sparks off guffaws of laughter. After thinking this, I try in vain to convince myself that I alone am the source of this idea of other people's mockery and mild opprobrium. But once objectified in others, I can no longer reclaim the image of myself as a figure of fun. I feel myself grow suddenly vague and hesitant in a hothouse rife with ridicule and animosity. From the depths of their soul, everyone points a finger at me. Everyone who passes stones me with merry insolence. I walk amongst enemy ghosts that my sick imagination has conjured up and planted inside real people. Everything jabs and jeers at me. And sometimes, in the middle of the road - unobserved, after all - I stop and hesitate, seeking a sudden new dimension, a door onto the interior of space, onto the other side of space, where without delay I might flee my awareness of other people, my too objective intuition of the reality of other people's living souls.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“He smiled mysteriously. Adults are so good at smiling mysteriously. Do they go to college for that?”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Ah—that’s the beauty of higher education, sergeant. Never use two simple words when one really complicated one will do.”
― Caroline Graham, Written In Blood

“. . . from her earliest days at Versailles, Marie Antoinette staged a revolt against entrenched court etiquette by turning her clothes and other accoutrements into defiant expressions of autonomy and prestige . . . it is my belief that she identified fashion as a key weapon in her struggle for personal prestige, authority, and sometimes mere survival.”
― Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“If you compliment a woman, it better be in expressions and earnestness that you haven't used for others. Else you'll just ruin it.", she said.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Mary's thoughts were like a rain of bitterness and a dew of sweetness gathered in the hollows of a tree-root. A brimming over from them all would have escaped and vanished if she had tried to express them in any sort of speech.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance

“One of my mother's favorite expressions is "Life is fraught with peril.”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“There is a heart, there is history. There is a heart, there is hell. There is a heart, there is hate. There is a heart, there is harm. There is a heart, there is heartache. There is a heart, there is heaviness. There is a heart, there is hinderance. There is a heart, there is help. There is a heart, there is honesty. There is a heart, there is hope. There is a heart, there is healing. There is a heart, there is harmony. There is a heart, there is heaven.”
― Anthony Liccione

“know that expression—only a man could cause a woman to look like that”
― Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear

“When you develop control over the generation of your emotions, you don't have to worry about their expression”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“[Why waste energy with wasted movements?]
Very commonly, tightening and furrowing the brow while concentrating... Is the brain a muscle that works better by tensing the skull?”
― Kenneth S. Cohen, The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing

“It’s an improvement to her resting face, best described like she’s permanently smelling foulness.”
― Shari Marshall, Chimera and Curses: Book Two of The Ember Files

“Human beings are bundles of emotion peppering muscles like a marionette. We emote not only with our bodies but with our very souls.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Online privacy is not a luxury reserved for the tech-savvy; it's a universal right that shapes the contours of a free and democratic digital society. It's about establishing spaces in the virtual realm where our thoughts, expressions, and interactions are shielded from unwanted scrutiny. As we navigate the interconnected web, the preservation of online privacy becomes a non-negotiable reality, defining the core values of our evolving digital landscape.”
― James William Steven Parker

“Lyrics are not words, but emotions, expressed in short and subtle way, to convey the feelings.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Once Upon A Hum - Strings

“Othe mera ghar
Othe hi hai rab
Othe meri jaan
Othe vasse sab
-
Kiwen main kawaan
Te Kawaan kinnu
Ohio hai junoon
Othe meri rooh
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Jithe jithe, othe jithe
Jithe jithe, othe jithe
Jithe vee hai tu, ek tu
Jithe jaaven tu, ek tu
Jithe vee hain tu, ek tu
Othe jithe tu, ek tu
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Na labban manzil
Na hi koi raah
Sunda te hovega
Haiga je khuda
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Dilon je Mango
Kehnde milju
Kujh hor nai
chahida mainnu
-
Khushi ohde Hathin
Socheya ni kyu
Labb leya bhaven
Khoke khud nu
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Ohio hai ikko
Othe mera sukoon
Ohio hai junoon
Othe meri rooh
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Jithe jithe, othe jithe
Jithe jithe, othe jithe
Jithe vee hai tu, ek tu
Jithe jaaven tu, ek tu
Jithe vee hain tu, ek tu
Othe jithe tu, ek tu”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Once Upon A Hum - Strings

“Kitne saleeke,
iss zindagi ke..
Logon ne sikhaaye,
kuch hum ne gir ke seekhe.
-
Gairon ne haske,
kaafi gham baante..
Thode doston ke,
hisse se chaante!
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Kitne saleeke, iss zindagi ke..
Logon ne sikhaaye,
kuch hum ne gir ke seekhe.
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Jeene ke tareeqe,
khusi mein ro ke..
They Kabhi tanha,
bheed mein hoke.
Uljhi ranjishein,
dil se bhulaake..
Haar ko muskuraate,
Gale lagaake.
-
Kuch dard piye,
jhoothey sach kadwe..
kabhi hasi ke pal,
thode feeke feeke..
--
 
Kitne saleeke,
iss zindagi ke..
Logon ne sikhaaye,
kuch humne gir ke seekhe.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Once Upon A Hum - Strings

“MARATHI VERSION
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Tithe maza ghar
Tithe aahe dev
Tithe maza jeeve
Tithe aahe sarv
-
Konala me saangu
Kaase me saangu
Tithe aahe itcha
Tithe aahe rooh
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Jithe jithe, othe jithe
Jithe jithe, othe jithe
Jithe vee hai tu, ek tu
Jithe jaaven tu, ek tu
Jithe vee hain tu, ek tu
Othe jithe tu, ek tu
---”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Once Upon A Hum - Strings