Quotes About Expression

The fact that you can sit down and write something, and that then it passes direct from you to someone else, is a much happier and more natural feeling than handing out cheques or things of that kind.

But I've always found that those who talk most about blood have never actually seen it run.

It is necessary to tell a woman at least once a week, and preferably three or four times, that we love her; and that it is also wise to bring her a few flowers, to pay her a few compliments, to tell her that she looks well in her new dress or new hat.

She had on a very vivid pullover and her nails matched it in colour. She had a thin bird-like eager face with big eyes and rather a tight, suspicious mouth.

On the slightly apoplectic countenance of Major Barry various emotions seemed contending for mastery.

Hate isn't creative." - Stillingfleet

By the way, I should like to make it clear here and now that the story will not be a story of South Africa. I guarantee no genuine local colour -- you know the sort of thing -- half a dozen words in italic on every page. I admire it very much, but I can't do it.

People with nothing better to do and a bit weak in the top storey sit down and write 'em. They don't mean any harm! Just a kind of excitement.

but his face is a bad face. Cruel, hawklike, predatory.

Her sulky mouth twisted into a smile.

Her conversation, I soon found, was couched in the telegraphic style.

She was obviously wearing her best clothes and had the self-conscious, wooden smile on her face that so often disfigures the expression in posed photography, and makes a snapshot preferable.

How explain to Megan the impulse that had come over me? - She had looked like a wistful dog being left behind. She now had on her face the incredulous pleasure of the dog who has been taken on the walk after all.

I do not complain," said Poirot, and proceeded to do so.

Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice. I did not wonder that the blood rose to John's face in a crimson tide.

One wonders where these things come *from* -- I mean the ones that are a must. Sometimes I think that is the moment one feels nearest to God, because you have been allowed to feel a little of the joy of pure creation. You have been able to make something that is not yourself. You know a kinship with the Almighty, as you might on a seventh day, when you see that what you have made is good.

Pottery - the whole romance of humanity can be expressed in terms of poetry.

Lawrence lived in the midst of an artistic disarray that would have driven me quite mad.

Most peculiar, the way people danced nowadays. Flinging themselves about, seeming quite contorted. Oh well, young people must enjoy—

A co jest nie tak z moj? propozycj?? (...) - Prosz? wybaczy? t? osobist? uwag?: nie podoba mi si? pa?ska twarz (...)

I rather think we've all got a bit of savage in us — if we can think up a good excuse for letting it rip.

She returned that intent gaze quietly and without any nervousness. He said at last:

He tailed off into furious profanity.

The man obviously wanted to tell him something - and as obviously had lost the art of simple narration. Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts - not of revealing them. He was an adept in the art of the useful phrase - that is to say the phrase that falls soothingly on the ear and is quite empty of meaning.