Quotes About Expression

If you're going to frame a crazy, build a crazy frame.

In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

miracle it is to find the right words, words that carry soul accurately

Words are like pillows: if put correctly they ease pain.

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

Excellent coffee should have its own sweetness, and instead of suppressing bitterness the milk will obscure the flavour characteristics of the coffee, hiding the work of the producer and the expression of terroir that the coffee has.

Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble. —Bobby Goodspeed

Writing it down is the way I make it real, the way I find my way into what it is I feel. The words on paper or computer screen tell me more than what I knew before I wrote them, help me remember what I'm afraid I'll forget, let me keep what I don't want to lose, say to me: You were here.

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

I write to reach eternity

The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street.

Get up, Get on up. Stay on the scene. Get on up, Like a Sex Machine. Get on up, Get up. Shake your arm, Then use your form. Stay on the scene, like a Sex Machine. You gotta have the feeling, Sure as you're born.

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use --silence, exile and cunning.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. from "Araby

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

A fart in the face is love.