Quotes About Expression

it seems to me the Land of Oz is a little ahead of the United States in some of its laws. For here, if one can't talk clearly, and straight to the point, they send him to Rigmarole Town; while Uncle Sam lets him roam around wild and free, to torture innocent people.

I am on-ly a ma-chine," said Tiktok. "I cannot be kind an-y more than I can be sor-ry or glad. I can on-ly do what I am wound up to do.

todavía miraba a su sobrina con expresión de extrañeza, preguntándose qué era lo que la hacía reír.

I composed it myself! said the Fiddler Crab. But it's highly classical, I admit. All really great music is an acquired taste.

With the point of his knife he made two round eyes, a three-cornered nose, and a mouth shaped like a new moon.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

Isn't a dead language rather a sad thing, Janet? Once it lived and burned and glowed. People said loving things in it…bitter things…wise and silly things in it. I wonder who was the very last person to utter a sentence in living Latin.

the Nazis burned books in public. Liberals suppress opinions that differ from their own through influences they want kept secret. The right wing destroyed books. The left destroys authors. —William Wilde Curringer, Unfinished Memoirs

Tutto ciò che si può dire lo si può dire chiaramente. Su ciò di cui non si può parlare si deve tacere.

You're talking! I know I am. And making sense! Thank you kindly. And in sentences! I've noticed. - Stefan and Elena

All around the world there are 230 countries, and among those people I can speak 5 languages. Nevertheless, I can't find the exact word to define our relationship.

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.

I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.

The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.