Quotes About Expression

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

I lost my temper on stage.

There's definitely an intense anger that I have inside, and I don't know where it came from. I've had it all my life. My mom was always like, 'You're going to end up in jail with that temper!'

Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

I don't temper how I feel. I'm Greek. I've got emotions.

I don't have an explosive temper. People seem to think that - maybe somewhere lives the lion in my cage. But I'm actually kind of goofy.

Music inflames temperament.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.

Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

I feel like rap fit me better. I could hoop. I could have went and did that, but this is my lifestyle, my temperament, my mentality.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

It's true that I'm not known as a crooner or balladeer. I'm known for a more crusading or quixotic temperament.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.

Of all the art forms that my family dabbles in, writing suits my temperament the most.

If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper.

I'm really honored that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there's only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I'm not in a hurry to go back to that temperature.

I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.

My inability to follow recipes as written - without obeying the devil on my shoulder telling me to replace ingredients or change the temperature - is well documented.

There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.'

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.