Quotes About Expression

Como el señor Keats, el poeta, convertiría el vagar sola y pálida en virtud. Tendría que hacerse alguien, y no la esposa de alguien

How do you explain to someone else why a thing matters to you if it doesn't matter to them? How can you put into words how a book slips inside of you and becomes a part of you so much that your life feels empty without it?

How you frame a photo says everything about the story you're trying to tell.

Every person should be free to read whatever they want, whenever they want, and not have to explain to anyone else why we like it, or why we think it's valuable. I hope you all get a chance to read my books someday.

In a very real and sobering way, we must actually become the gospel to the people around us—an expression of the real Jesus through the quality of our lives.

On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down.

Language is the realm of the poet, of desire and hope, of the search for and expression of infinity.

I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't they want that positive, uptempo thing.

Good thing I'm driving or I'd kick you in the balls. Oh, wait, we're in England. I'd kick you in the bollocks.

and a chocolate brown woolly

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

She may have discovered how to solve the problem of aviation in music. What makes an aviator what he is? An aviator is a person who deals with getting heavier-than-air objects off the ground. She could do that, musically and emotionally. She could take a feeling and actually lift it off the ground, and it would stay there.

Alan MacDonald

Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Love your rage, not your cage.

We can never fully understand the hearts and minds of people . . . unless we can speak directly to them in their own language so that the implications, not just the words, come through clearly.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

I don't know what an interrobang is." "It's a glyph that combines a question mark and an exclamation point.

Tails often say a lot more than mere words.

All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful... If you emphasize the truth-telling at the expense of art, nobody is going to be interested in it. And if you sacrifice truth in the name of art, you risk triviality. There's a constant balance between those two.

items that have become part of me, foliage that has grown to conceal the bare stem of my real personality, what I was like before I ever saw these books, or any book at all, come to that.