Quotes About Expression

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting.

I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.

Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of Tai Chi' became the story to tell.

When I was in the Sex Pistols, I listened to Boston. But I couldn't tell anybody, you know. I'd get lynched.

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?

I would love to work with anybody who has a good story to tell - Patrick Graham, Vikramaditya Motwane, Anurag Kashyap, Neeraj Ghaywan, Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson. I don't know why I was not considered for that Indian guy's part in 'The Grand Budapest Hotel.'

I was never a joke teller. I don't even like jokes, for the most part. I don't like to hear them, and rarely can I even remember one.

I'm just a story teller.