Quotes About Expression

How shabby the truth can become when one articulates it.

Sve je krivo što govorim, postaje krivo dok govorim. Re?i su lažne i sentimentalne i ne izri?u pravi smisao i pretvaraju se u noževe, a ja te ne želim povrediti, ali svaka re? mora biti povreda ako ho?u da sam iskrena. A sve i kada verujem da sam iskrena, ja to ipak nisam.

Je voulais dire quelque chose, mais je n'y parvins pas. C'est difficile de trouver des mots lorsqu'on a quelque chose à dire.

Omul este un actor des?vârÈ™it È™i are o pasiune pentru rolurile lacrimogene.

why were the State Department and President Roosevelt so hesitant to express in frank terms how they really felt about Hitler at a time when such expressions clearly could have had a powerful effect on his prestige in the world?

It is true that in this time people set their faces hard for photographs, partly from custom, partly because of deficits in photographic technology, but this crowd might not have smiled for the better part of a century. The women seem suspended in a state somewhere between melancholy and fury and are surrounded by old men in strange beards that look as if someone had dabbed glue at random points on their faces, then hurled buckets of white hair in their direction.

It was as if a load had suddenly been lifted from the German soul. The sense of relief could almost be felt in the air. Papen had put into words what thousands upon thousands of his countrymen had locked up in their hearts for fear of the awful penalties of speech.

He wrote: "Most of these woolly phrases are mere padding, which can be left out altogether, or replaced by a single word. Let us not shrink from using the short expressive phrase, even if it is conversational." The resulting prose, he wrote, "may at first seem rough as compared with the flat surface of officialese jargon. But the saving of time will be great, while the discipline of setting out the real points concisely will prove an aid to clear thinking.

gin daisy, which

Sentences wandered through the report like morning glory through the pickets of a fence.

In this time when writing long letters was everyday practice, men of normal sensibility saw these cards as the most crabbed of media, little better than telegrams

There are some things I must try to say before the still watches come again in which the things unsaid hurt so and cry out in the heart to be uttered.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

What was a pretty, clever girl anyway? She gets called a "muse," but she was kindling.

Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit... Suzanne

Ty:It sounds pretty when you say it, but I have no clue what the hell you're talking about. Imogen:It's Shakespeare, she said. Ty:Well, I was pretty sure it wasn't Kenny Chesney.

Wow. Getting sassy, aren't you? I am, aren't I? I asked in amazement. I didn't know I knew how to do that.

He did get a lot of pictures like that. Or ones where women were mostly naked, but looked surprised by the fact.

Seriously. A cuddle rating. Who came up with that shit? Whoever had, it meant he had to cuddle her like a pro just to prove a point.

I love you," he murmured. My heart swelled in appreciation the way it always did when he shared his feelings. "I love you, too.

The voice was suave, pleasant, well modulated and expressive. The restless eyes were so black that it was hard to detect expression in them, but his voice more than made up for it. Here was no man who talked in a conversational monotone, but one whose every word seemed alive with expression. His motions as he moved about straightening up the room were graceful, well-timed and effective.

I always use the word 'houses of prostitution' in talking to Edith, Mrs. Cool." "I don't. I call 'em whorehouses," Bertha said acidly. "It's easier to say. It's more expressive, and it leaves no room for doubt.

people," he said, "try to put on a poker face when they are in a panic and when they try to put on a poker face they look sulky.

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.