Quotes About Expression

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

Conception and form are bound together; finding and shaping the words is a matter of finding the appropriate...fit between conception and expression.

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

Ugh, emotions.

It had been such a stupid question, I had forgotten not to have an expression.

Miki said, "That's not good." See, that? That is just annoying. That contributed nothing to the conversation and was just a pointless vocalization to make the humans comfortable.

I looked down. I was dripping onto the floor, a mix of blood and fluid. I hate it when I leak.

Amena gave up on the mask and gave me her full attention. "You look angry." "That's just something my face does sometimes." This is why helmets with opaque face plates are a good idea. Amena snorted in disbelief. "Yes, when you're angry.

Nobody fucking listens to me.

I didn't react visibly, because I'm used to clients making bad decisions, and I was getting a lot of practice at controlling my expression.

ART must be recovering because it had to butt in with, "Tell her you care about her. Use those words, don't tell her you'll eviscerate anything that tries to hurt her." "ART, fuck off.

Sometimes humans can't help but let emotion bleed through into the feed.

And "weak" wasn't really the right word for what Shade meant. What he was trying to say was harder to express. It was giving in to feelings other people thought you were supposed to have about things that shouldn't have happened to you in the first place, but were not like the actual feelings you did have. There wasn't a word for that in Raksuran or Altanic or Kedaic or any other language Moon knew. Moon said, "It's not weak." The

Stone waited there in groundling form, his opaque expression somehow conveying a deep disgust with all of them, but especially Moon.

I could feel ART metaphorically clutch its function.

I guess the feed isn't adequate for all forms of communication, particularly those that involve a lot of glaring.)

Normal = neutral expression concealing existential despair and brain-crushing boredom.)

I'm out of practice at controlling my expression. Right now I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in the region of stunned horror, or maybe appalled horror.

Your face just got really weird. Are you all right?

With a grimace that was probably supposed to be a sneer, he asked, "What do you want?

Ratthi had to fold his lips almost completely inside his mouth to keep from reacting.

Leia fixed her with the steely expression that was usually effective on everyone but Han Solo

Then in my skim of the news broadcast I hit an image. It was me. I didn't stop in my tracks because I have a lot of practice in not physically reacting to things no matter how much they shock or horrify me. I may have lost control of my expression for a second; I was used to always wearing a helmet and keeping it opaqued whenever possible.