Quotes About Expression

Spontaneous dance party!

Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

Let it out, all that stuff you're carrying around. You're pissed off at me, at your paretns, at life, at Eleanor. Come on. Let me have it. Don't disappear in there.

I don't say anything because I used to love words. I loved them and was good at arranging them. Because of this, I felt protective of all the best ones. But now all of them, good and bad, frustrate me.

books spread across the comforter. Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own—my words are gone.

We've done "I love you more than' since we were ten, because we love each other beyond three words and needed to find a way to say it.

Remember what Michelangelo said about the sculpture being inside the stone - it was there from the beginning, and his job was the bring it out. Violet mother

E' come se dentro me ci fosse una creatura incazzata che scalpita per uscire. Sono anni che mi cresce dentro e ormai occupa tutto lo spazio, mi preme sui polmoni, sul petto, sulla gola. Io faccio di tutto per ricacciarla indietro. Non voglio farla uscire. Non posso farla uscire". "Raccontami di un giorno perfetto

So I make up song after song. Most nights, these are Songs That Will Change the World because they are that good and that deep and that damn amazing.

the face is a road map of life.

sometimes there's beauty in the tough words—it's all in how you read them.

Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.

The eyes are one of the most powerful tools a woman can have. With one look, she can relay the most intimate message. After the connection is made, words cease to exist.

Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.

Art is spirituality in drag.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

What image of beauty we hold exists so brilliantly, so beautifully in our minds, and the sad task then is to somehow transcribe this image so that it becomes viewable to others.

I only said I loved you in my poetry.

Can you give to someone else what has been? That's the task of the poet.

If you can't enjoy having a motherfucking baby with the motherfucking woman you love, fuck you, son. And also. Fuck you.

Her bark's worse than her bite. Although her bite is pretty bad to begin with.

Books were the best way Nina knew – apart from, sometimes, music – to breach the barrier; to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.