Quotes About Expression

She screws up her face in a parody of deep concentration.

It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.

He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

I give people the latitude to express their imagination.

The limits of my language," wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, "are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for." Without the word we are imprisoned; possessing the word, we are set free.

A semicomma, we should note, doesn't exist; we just made the word up. But it sounds like a punctuation mark that should exist, doesn't it?

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

I think I'm always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself. - Celine

Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can't avoid that.

You know, that's what I hate: when you start talking like this, like you just pull in these things from the shit you read, and you haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us, and totally unoriginal.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from basso profundo, and basso, and baritone, and alto, and tenor, and soprano, and also mezzo, and contralto, singing and singing, until life and all things living are become a song. O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.

I played around our yard some and talked to the fence posts, sung songs and made the weeds sing . . . —WOODY GUTHRIE

You employ large phrases.

The Pringle servants often expressed concern for their masters and mistresses.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters.

A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.

Communication is not about the sender or receiver; it's about the sending. And that's done with language.

On the Overture of the Rossini opera "Il SIgnor Bruschino" - The sound of the second violins striking the backs of their bows against the metal candle holders shortly after the start of the overture was judged 'incomprehensible' by the Giornale. Rossini feared as much. 'Dio ti salvi l'anima' (God save your soul), he wrote on the manuscript at the end of the overture).

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.