Quotes About Expression

I won't shout at you! Nyanaeve shouted.

about speaking up to Sitters, or

me, and went away." "They looked at you," Mat said with a grin, "like you

language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk wagon.

Simplemente no puedo ser amable. No puedo expresar mis sentimientos... Como si eso de alguna manera fuera revelarme demasiado... Exponerme. Así que siempre aparento ser tranquila, escondo mis emociones... Trato de ser fía y calmada. Tengo dificultad de abrirme con la gente.

because yes – he likes to 'write' – but to 'do' – to do a particular thing – perhaps on paper (perhaps on canvas – perhaps in stone – perhaps, perhaps in a musical score) – a thing that will stand, a thing that will bear (that will sustain) repeated contemplation: a thing that will sustain long contemplation, and that will (in a 'deep' enough way) reward the beholder.

Writing now makes me feel as if I had lost at least one of my senses. I can't hear you or see you and I wonder if you hear me. One thing is quite sure. I love you. Yours, George.

The pencil is mightier than the pen.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

It's an old split. Like the one between art and art history. One does it and the other talks about how it's done and the talk about how it's done never seems to match how one does it.

Writing it seemed to have higher quality than not writing it, that was all.

He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working.

She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.

Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence building assignment too, because what they wrote, even though seemingly trivial, was nevertheless their own thing, not a mimicking of someone else's.

The trouble is that essays always have to sound like God talking for eternity, and that isn't the way it ever is. People should see that it's never anything other than just one person talking from one place in time and space and circumstance. It's never been anything else, ever, but you can't get that across in an essay.

The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor...to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University.

Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.

I'm not sure of much of anything these days. Maybe that's why I talk so much.

It's an old split. Like the one between art and art history. One does it and the other talks about how it's done and the talk about how it's done never seems to match how one does it. DeWeese

But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing – and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job.

If they already knew what was good and bad, there was no reason for them to take the course in the first place. The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor—to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University.

Sometimes just the act of writing down the problems straightens out your head as to what they really are. The

Thus transcription factors regulate genes. What regulates transcription factors? The answer devastates the concept of genetic determinism: the environment.

Ask not what a gene does. Ask what it does in a particular environment and when expressed in a particular network of other genes