Quotes About Expression

Need we go into details about what I said to Judy? I am no poet, and I suppose what I said was very much what everybody always says, and although I remember her as speaking golden words, I cannot recall precisely anything she said. If love is to be watched and listened to without embarrassment, it must be transmuted into art, and I don't know how to do that, and it is not what I have come to Zurich to learn.

Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books.

There's the satisfaction of Eng-Lang-and-Lit; somebody else has said everything for you, and said it better.

No need to go into details about what I said to Judy? I am no poet, and I suppose what I said was very much what everybody always says, and although I remember her as speaking golden words, I cannot recall precisely anything she said. If love is to be watched and listened to without embarrassment, it must be transmuted into art, and I don't know how to do that, and it is not what I have come to Zürich to learn.

I was a talking lover, which most women hate.

I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the emphasis where I think it belongs.

The borborygmy, or rumbling of the stomach, has not received the attention from either art or science which it deserves. It is as characteristic of each individual as the tone of the voice. It can be vehement, plaintive, ejaculatory, conversational, humorous -- its variety is boundless. But there are few who are prepared to give it an understanding ear; it is dismissed too often with embarrassment or low wit.

Hawkins sought out the freshest, most original musicians, and had little patience for those who would quibble over the difference between "modern" or "progressive," "swing" or "bebop." "I don't think about music as being new, or modern, or anything of the type," he mused. "Music doesn't go seasonable to me."44

Thelonious Monk's music is essentially about freedom.

I am hurt...in ways you cannot see, and that I cannot explain, even to myself, but only know that they are there, and a part of me, as much as my hands and eyes and breath are a part of me.

Rosie hated her curly golden hair. When she was old enough to hold minimal conversations, the itsy-bitsy-cutesycoo sort of grown-ups would pull the soft ringlets gently and tell her what a pretty little girl she was. She would stare at this sort of grown-up and say, "I am not pretty. I am intelligent. And brave.

A writer who isn't writing isn't really alive.

Sir Richard ignored this, staring at Robin, who was staring at his feet. I love her, you see, he said at last, indistinctly. Sir Richard grimaced. A fine way you have of showing it. A fine thing I should love her at all, do you not think? Robin said, looking up.

Or that Ayn Rand and Jesus are truly strange bedfellows? Why can't we say this? Because we are afraid. Why are we afraid? Because we care too much about what people think of us, and not enough about whether we say what needs to be said at a time like this.

Haig and Robertson were two of the most inarticulate officers in the British Army. Haig could write lucid notes and detailed instructions but was unable to express himself clearly at meetings or discussions, while Robertson's normal response to any query or criticism was either an explosive grunt or the dour comment 'I've heard different.

A deveni egoist presupune s? recunoÅŸti c? valoarea ta e mare, c? aptitudinile tale sunt demne de a fi exprimate, c? împlinirea fiinÅ£ei tale este tot atât de important? ca a oric?rei alte persoane ÅŸi c? tot ce ai mai bun este cel mai grozav dar pe care-l poÅ£i oferi lumii ÅŸi, mai ales, celor dragi.

Never forget the power of music. Spend a little time with it every day

A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

Spring has past, summer has gone and winter is here. And the song that I meant to sing remains unsung. I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument.

The eighth ritual is the Ritual of the Spoken Word.

When things are said in anger, irritation or frustration, you can put a hole into someone just like you have put a hole into that fence.

The words you use determine the way you feel. The

It is important to remember that just as our words are our thoughts verbalized, so our deeds are our beliefs actualized.

I am an artist at living — my work of art is my life.