Quotes About Expression

J.Lo looked miserable. You wouldn't think you could tell that when a person's wearing a ghost suit, but you can.

Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right? Didn't write any decent girl characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine. The

In the words of Dr. Seuss: Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

The man who indulges us in this natural passion, who invites us into his heart, who, as it were, sets open the gates of his breast to us, seems to exercise a species of hospitality more delightful than any other. No man, who is in ordinary good temper, can fail of pleasing, if he has the courage to utter his real sentiments as he feels them, and because he feels them.

The thing about you, her mother used to say, is that you never act out of character. You have no originality. But Nigora knew this was not true. Because she was going to act out of character, She was going (thought Nigora) to be herself. And yet: how could she? How could she?

It's important to make a distinction between allowing feelings and allowing actions," I replied. "We permit children to express all their feelings. We don't permit them to hurt each other. Our job is to show them how to express their anger without doing damage.

Nelson had a face like Brian Clough getting sodomised with a pineapple.

Bad prose is the bugbear of genre fiction.

I love you. The thought startled me, but I felt it spread through my body like warm ocean waves. I loved her. I wanted to say it, but I was afraid of being too much. Of scaring her off. Of adding to the jumble of overwhelming emotions she was probably already feeling. So, I tucked the words deep in the corner of my heart, saving them for a rainy day

It [money] doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water--whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.

If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Do Italians tell you everything they feel without censor?

There is no greater purpose for art than to move you, to elevate your mood, to make you think, to remind you of places you have been or places you want to build. It does everything—nourishes the soul and lifts the spirits of the people.

How can you quantify the moment when a person laughs, or when they cry, when they feel? You can't. It's the human experience.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the

Nothing like the theater to bring out the claws and pepper in people.

Love yourself. That's the greatest adventure. When you love yourself, you want to find your purpose, something only you can do in the way only you can do it. Make things. Create. And if a man comes along—and believe me, he will—the relationship is already off to a good start because both of you love the same person. You. Lucky him.

Words are doctors for the diseased temper.

A great ox stands on my tongue.

You patronize me like some little woman with no mind to call her own. I speak with heart devoid of fear to those with wit to understand, and you can praise me or condemn me as you like, it's all the same to me.

How fain I'd speak to those who know mythought, And silence keep to those who yet know nought.

Thy tongue sounds in accordance with thy form. (Vulcan)

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.