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Quotes About Expression

Verba vana aut risui apta non loqui (????? ??????, ? ??? ????????? ?????, ?? ?? ????????).
~ Umberto Eco
The state might say that it had taken a year to write the book, and the author might say it had taken thirty. Goethe said that every bon mot of his had cost a purse of gold. What
~ Upton Sinclair
All that men had felt and suffered had been recorded and preserved in musical sound, a heritage for those who had ears to hear and minds to understand.
~ Upton Sinclair
Lanny danced with light feet but a heavy heart; having created patterns in times of joy, he could reproduce them in times of sorrow.
~ Upton Sinclair
He always delivered these tirades extemporaneously and had never yet been known to read a prepared speech. The
~ Upton Sinclair
Free speech doesn't overthrow governments," answered the other. "It's the lack of free speech.
~ Upton Sinclair
On the day their eyes met and finally said abruptly to each of them those first obscure ineffable things that the glance stammers out...
~ Victor Hugo
I had to do the books I did because there were no books about those subjects to give me what I wanted. I had to clear up my world, elucidate it, for myself.
~ V.S. Naipaul
Boy, the only thing to make is the thing without a name.
~ V.S. Naipaul
The poem written, his selfconsciousness violated, he was whole again.
~ V.S. Naipaul
Laughter is nature's ok signal.
~ V.S. Ramachandran
No. It's no the same. The interviewers want you to say what they want to hear. I want to hear what you have to say.
~ Val McDermid
Patsy McDonald had the artificial brightness and dead eyes that go hand in hand with prescription antidepressants. They
~ Val McDermid
But also, surprisingly, Charles Willeford, Ken Bruen and James Sallis.
~ Val McDermid
Train yourself to say what you want to say and then stop.
~ Valerie E Hess
A pun is its own reword.
~ Valerie Estelle Frankel
Personal style gives women power. Personal style is derived from you, not from a magazine or a designer.
~ Valerie Frankel
What I'm telling you is that personal style, dressing well and caring about your clothes, is one simple way to make you feel better, to lighten the load. Why shouldn't you take advantage? Given how hard life can be, why not do the easy part?
~ Valerie Frankel
I am a cultural historian specializing in fashion, and the book you are now reading as part of an ongoing project on the relationship between clothing and sexuality. I am interested in exploring fashion as a symbolic system linked to expression of sexuality – both sexual behaviour (including erotic attraction) and gender identity.
~ Valerie Steele
The grey hair, which has spoken of old age at once to writers and doctors, means to a painter not just grey hair, but a certain grey – perhaps a grey with silver lights and warm shadows, perhaps an opaque cold grey, but a grey as different from other greys as one chord in music is different from others.
~ Vanessa Bell
Que poder y claridad hay en la palabra, la palabra libre y desinhibida! La palabra que se pronuncia a pesar de todos los temores. Vida y Destino
~ Vasili Grossman
Karasik, Natasja – verlegen
~ Vasily Grossman
Dad made that up just like he made up the sign over the store. He plays with words until they say what he feels. I guess that makes him a poet.
~ Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
The poet must rethink her writing activities in such a way as to désoublier (to unforget), détaire (to unsilence), déterrer (to unbury), se désaveugler (to unbind), se dessourdier (to undeafen), in an endeavor to displace all that has been repressed, incorporated, appropriated. This is the poet's way of fighting.
~ Verena Andermatt Conley