Quotes About Expression

all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken—only felt and endured.

Pigs MAY whistle, but they've poor mouths for it

The thought of her mother's expression made Valancy laugh – for she had a sense of humour nobody in her clan suspected.

But when you have huge thoughts you need to use large words to specific them, haven't you?

I don't want them cured!" Emily was getting angrier and angrier all the time under the table. "I like my faults better than I do your — your—" she fumbled mentally for a word — then triumphantly recalled a phrase of her father's—"your abominable virtues!")

Now, Anne Shirley, for pity's sake don't fly up into the air." The warning seemed not unnecessary, so uplifted and aerial was Anne's expression and attitude as she sprang to her feet, her face irradiated with the flame of her spirit.

The lines and verses are only the outward garments of the poem and are no more really it than your ruffles and flounces are YOU

I'm afraid you both cry and laugh far too easily.

Pero si uno tiene grandes ideas debe usar grandes palabras para expresarlas, ¿no es verdad?

It is the injustice that stings me. There go more italics! But a few italics really do relieve your feelings.

But here and now I record this vow, most solemnly, in my diary, My pen shall heal, not hurt.

It's—it's—just like a man, said Miss Cornelia helplessly.

I was just trying to write out some of my thoughts, as Professor Hamilton advised me, but I couldn't get them to please me. They seem so still and foolish directly they're written down on white paper and black ink. Fancies are like shadows... you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. But perhaps I'll learn the secret someday if I keep trying.

Occasionally she looked at Anne, seemed on the point of saying something, then shook her head and buttoned up her mouth.

It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.

Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.

His anger took many shapes: sometimes soft and familiar, like a round stone he had caressed for so long that is was perfectly smooth and polished; sometimes it was thin and sharp like a blade that could slice through anything; sometimes it had the form of a star, radiating his hatred in all directions, leaving him numb and empty inside.

The sincere reaction to making meaningful art is often speechlessness. We make art about what we cannot understand through any other method. The finished product is like a pearl, complete and beautiful, but mute about itself. The writer has given us this piece of his interior and there is frequently no explanation, nothing to be said about it. Often, the writer himself has very little idea of what he has created.

even when we stop typing and leave the house, we remain writers.

Of the 2,639,857 faggots in the New York city area, 2,639,857 think primarily with their cocks. You didn't know that the cock was a thinking organ? Well, by this time, you should know that it is.

Humiliation is so essential to Catholics. And to faggots!

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.

See this page of paper? It's blank," Scull said. "That, sir, is the most frightening battlefield in the world: the blank page. I mean to fill this paper with decent sentences, sir—this page and hundreds like it. Let me tell you, Colonel, it's harder than fighting Lee. Why, it's harder than fighting Napoleon. It requires unremitting attention

I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.