Quotes About Expressiveness

#1. Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

Guido Van Rossum

#2. For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside, towards an art of arrangement whose expressiveness depends less and less upon its elements imitating the objects of the external world.

Robert Motherwell

#3. another motive as well - namely, to preserve her voice, which had a quality of expressiveness I have rarely encountered. Customarily she spoke with a soft tone, as one might expect of a woman who has made a career of entertaining men.

Arthur Golden

#4. For sixteen years, I had seen just emptiness in those eyes. Her eloquent eyes had lost their expressiveness to destiny.

Anmol Rawat

#5. I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

William Safire

#6. Expressiveness in others enriched Mrs. Singer's confidence in her own interpretations, possibly because a certain fear that she had not accomplished anything in her life left her all the more desirous of discovering easy clues to less consequential questions.

William T. Vollmann

#7. It had a sort of a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared, say, to fingers and toes with their intelligent expressiveness, or even to an elbow or a knee.

Alice Munro

#8. Duplication and expressiveness take me a very long way into what I consider clean code, and improving dirty code with just these two things in mind can make a huge difference. There is, however, one other thing that I'm aware of doing, which is a bit harder to explain.

Robert C. Martin

#9. You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.

Michala Petri

#10. The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

#11. Everyone longs for expressiveness. That's why love carries so much weight. Because so many lives are without other means of expressiveness.

Vivian Gornick

#12. A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Walter Pater

#13. Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.

Billy Collins

#14. Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last book offers a theory of expressiveness which makes of expression not a faithful image of an already realized interior being, but the very means by which it is realized.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#15. Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.

John Carlin

#16. When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.

Peggy Fleming

#17. White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.

Jamake Highwater

#18. The productivity and expressiveness of Flash remain advantages for the Web community even as HTML advances.

Kevin Lynch

#19. Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.

Bill Gates

#20. I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

Dev Anand

#21. Exegesis says, "Before you can hear it with your ears, hear it with theirs. Before you can understand it today, understand it back then.

Jen Wilkin

#22. 'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed lifer: someone who has embraced a minimalist ethic in order to rock climb. It basically means you're a homeless person by choice.

Alex Honnold

#23. He was startled, but there was that about him which made it impossible to show what he felt, an instant and utter reflex of stillness to counteract all outward evidence of surprise, fear, anything.

Ellery Queen

#24. I can stand by a tweet. But Comedy Central said they couldn't publicly support me, unless I deleted it. I wasn't about to tell the people who work for me that they didn't have jobs anymore because I wasn't going to delete a stupid tweet.

Anthony Jeselnik

#25. I'm honestly kind of scared of horror films. My girlfriend always tries to expose them to me. Being in a scary movie and seeing all the fake blood and stuff definitely takes away from the magic and kind of humanizes scary movies to me now, though.

Chris Carmack

#26. I like you; your eyes are full of language.
[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

Anne Sexton

#27. A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.

Kate Reardon

#28. We donate time, expertise, and resources to a wide array of charitable and nonprofit organizations around the world each year through partnership initiatives that make a real difference in our communities.

Joshua Bekenstein

#29. Clover['s] eyes are full of language.

Anne Sexton

#30. In 1961 you usually didn't hear the word shit from teachers, even if they had a mouthful. But

Stephen King

#31. She had been proved right so eloquently, she had thought, that comments were unnecessary.

Ayn Rand