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True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion. -- Angel Haze
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. -- Charles Babbage
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. -- Stephen Greenblatt
Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content. -- Gerald Brommer
Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others. -- Zig Ziglar
Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant! -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader. -- Adam Clarke
Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation. -- Joseph Brodsky
The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist. -- Ken Danby
Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie. -- L. Neil Smith
If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement. -- Gilbert Harding
How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous. -- Haruki Murakami
If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation. -- Philip Auslander
We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings. -- Brian Aldiss
One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard. -- Honore de Balzac
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart. -- Hannah More
Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into visible form. ... It must be the reflection of the artist who creates it and of the era in which he lives, not an echo or a memory of other days and other ways. -- Malvina Hoffman
In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done. -- Samuel Gompers
[Do you know] how it feels to be a clownish character? It's always complicated to imagine conveying yourself outside of your body. Inside myself I feel like this rich, complicated thing, and then I see representations of myself, especially in the media - and I think this is why it's troubling for me, because I feel so caricatured and flattened. -- Kalan Sherrard
I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe. -- Adam Levine
If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state. -- Brian Reynolds Myers
To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them. -- Maajid Nawaz
I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me. -- Carmine Giovinazzo
Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality. -- Frank Miller
What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.' -- Amy Chua
I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us. -- Richard Greenberg
Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude comedy, because humor gets in the way of messages of doom or struggle. -- Paul Di Filippo
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
When I do period work, I really like to read about the period as much as I like to look at pictures because sometimes the written word is much better at conveying what their lives were really like and how much they had and where their clothes came from. Because, a lot of time, people dressed in their Sunday best to pose for a picture. -- Colleen Atwood
Objects are better than text at conveying narrative -- Neil MacGregor
I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information. -- Pat Mora
When a musician is conveying that fresh feeling, that's what appeals to me, even more so than the style. -- Joseph Trapanese
The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment. -- Edouard Vuillard
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information. -- Quentin Crisp
I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now. -- Alicia Keys
The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has. -- David Denby
I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. -- Charles Bradlaugh
...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable. -- Thomas Tredgold
Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously. -- E. J. W. Barber
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects. -- Claude Monet
The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground. -- Natalia Makarova
Fear is a message - sometimes helpful, sometimes not - but often conveying critical information about our beliefs, our needs, and our relationship to the world around us. -- Harriet Lerner
There's something therapeutic about connecting with an audience - when there's something really sort of odd or silly that you think is funny, and conveying it to an audience. -- Eugene Mirman
Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information. -- John Dewey
Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin. -- Ruth Ozeki
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else. -- Claude Monet
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I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me. -- J Tillman
At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution. -- Marco Rubio
Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? -- Ronald Reagan

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