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Quotes About Expressions

Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
To create a new resume of films and expressions is the only focal point for 2014 for me.
~ Padmapriya Janakiraman
I remember going to L.A. and doing shows, and people would just stand there with their arms folded.
~ Pimp C
The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content.
~ Stephen Wolfram
I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.
~ Olivia De Havilland
Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.
~ Sarah Dessen
There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I am but an ordinary Man. The Times alone have destined me to Fame–and even these have not been able to give me, much. . . . Yet some great Events, some cutting Expressions, some mean Hypocrisies, have at Times, thrown this Assemblage of Sloth, Sleep, and littleness into Rage a little like a Lion.
~ John Adams
Why? Oh, Holy Cow!" I groaned. "Please not to use these ridiculous expressions," he exploded in exasperation. "I have never heard any other Americans use them except those—what do you call them—those cartoon animals. Mickey Mouse." "Micky Mice," I said firmly.
~ Elaine Dundy
Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
The agent that exhibited human social behaviors such as gestures and changes in facial expressions promoted best learning. The static agent actually led to less learning than no agent. Perhaps the static agent became a distracting screen element?
~ Ruth Colvin Clark
The disabilities of the people who came to him were established so young, in such delicate years, that their tender agonies were, by the time they arrived in his office, thickened into a stunned arrangement of expressions, deflections, and shrewd manipulations. No
~ Elizabeth Strout
I've worked with little kid actors before, and when they start crying or anything like that, it makes my job so easy, because you react. A little kid crying, there's not much else to do.
~ Liam Hemsworth
In Mexico and Latin America, everything is big: Bigger emotions, bigger reactions. Here in the U.S., everything is more natural, more grounded and down to earth.
~ Eugenio Derbez
I love people's, like, reactions to things - whether it's, like, a good reaction or a bad reaction.
~ David Dobrik
I don't make big grand gestures, generally.
~ Katherine Heigl
In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.
~ Yukihiro Matsumoto
Out of the montage of accusations and sly traps written in their collective expressions, one face stood out clearly from all the rest. What was the remark the man had made? Oh, yes, he remembered it now. "I am completely impartial, Dr. Billings," the man had said. "I merely see to it that you teachers say nothing which might threaten our freedom of speech!
~ Mark Clifton
si sa sempre cosa passa per la testa a un cane. […] un cane può essere felice, triste, arrabbiato o concentrato.
~ Mark Haddon
On my last ride on the RR train I looked almost as lovingly at the faces and expressions of my fellow passengers as if I were staring a a photograph of times long past. They did not know that they made a photograph. They did not understand the vanishing background of their lives...
~ Mark Helprin
our human language is full of indications of how much dogs mean to us.somebody who is not favored to win is anunderdog a book that's well worn is dog-eared and why is a bitch the most humiliating thing you can call a woman?
~ shirley mac laine
What expressions we used -- in part taken over and in part newly invented! -- above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.
~ barth karl ii
I overuse words. My kids catch me saying stuff. They're like, 'Hey, you say that all the time.' 'Boom' is one of those things.
~ Walker Hayes
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches.
~ Sarah MacLean