Quotes About Expression

Biopsies taken before and after the diet and lifestyle intervention showed that the expression of more than five hundred genes was affected. This was one of the first demonstrations that changing what you eat and how you live can affect you at a genetic level, in terms of which genes are switched on and off.

Just because you're born with bad genes doesn't mean you can't effectively turn them off.

The notion of a "pure" science free from metaphysical and theological contamination is a fiction and therefore already the expression of a theology.

The greatest service you can offer the world is to be your own authentic, weird and eccentric self.

Embrace your eccentricity and creativity, live outside the norm, and wait for the world to catch up.

When words fail, the hammer drops, living can never be its own excuse.

It's impossible to say "good eye might" without sounding Australian.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

I've heard one or two riders refer to the odd night out as 'morale training'. It's a good expression for it. It's got the word 'training' in it, so it's got to be a good idea.

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

Paul's act of faith has enabled him to share in the faith of Jesus, the faith that expressed itself in self-giving love.

Writing is a lot like sex: at first you do it because you enjoy it. Then you find yourself doing it with others. But if you're any good at all, you end up doing it for less money than it's worth.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

I don't like to write, but I love to have written.

Moderne Malerei ist jener Wandbehang, dem das häppchenverdrückende und plaudernde Publikum bei Vernissagen seinen Rücken zukehrt.

Der Kritisch-Aufgeklärte wird zunächst felsenfest behaupten, es gäbe keine Zensur in einer Demokratie, und wenn man ihm dann Beispiele nennt, wird er ungerührt erklären, dass es gut sei, wenn gewisse Tatsachen und Ansichten nicht veröffentlicht würden.

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

There are different layers of honesty—the truth of what you said and the truth of what was in your heart when you spoke the words.

The first draft reveals the art; revision reveals the artist.

It's hard to explain your passions, but sometimes it is harder to live them.

Ironically, those with the least to say usually say the most and the most outwardly religious were often the most theologically unsophisticated.

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

The purest of virtue signaling can be seen in the likes of what was found on actor James Franco's now-deleted Instagram page. Franco's brief bio included the caveat "if you're racist, sexist, or homophobic, get the f*** out of here." It takes courage to stand up to "racists," but writing out the F-word is a bridge too far, apparently.

A person who decrees "That's not funny" isn't in a position to define that for anyone, let alone everyone.