Quotes About Expression

Okay, stud , just one more question." She formed an L with her thumb and index finger. 'Why are some people in the audience holding the sign for "loser"?' It was my turn to laugh at her. 'That's not for loser.' I set down my soda, mirrored her gesture with my hand, then straightened our pinkies to form the sign-language letter. 'The L stands for "love".

Also, Empathy should be expressed in a neutral way with minimal personal reference to the speaker's own feelings. The emphasis here is on the borderline's painful experience, not the speaker's. A statement like "I know just how bad you are feeling" invites a mocking rejoinder that, indeed, you do not know, and only aggravates conflict.

For it is eloquence all the same whether few things are said in many words, or many things in few words.

human language is inadequate to the divine praise

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

A poem should not mean/ but be.

He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose)...

I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words that anybody understands. Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit the Wind

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouses, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. When people communicate, they communicate with their faces, their bodies, their timing, and the objects around them. Make this a full conversation. Not just the words part.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Avoid mannerisms in attributions. People say things; they don't wheeze, gasp, sigh, laugh, grunt, snort, reply, retort, exclaim, or declare them.

The so-called laws of nature are nothing more than the physical expression of the steady will of Christ.

for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness" (1 Timothy 2:2). Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Write what you know? No. Write what you can imagine. After all, imagining is knowing—a special kind of knowing that can reveal as much or more truth than our real experience.

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

But shitty human beings sometimes make great art.

Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not sufficient, and what it really needs is more you. And it does, actually; it does. Go look outside. You can't tell me that we are done making the world.

I've come to believe that it's the stronger man who expresses his emotions rather than swallowing them and allowing them to fester.

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.