Quotes About Expression

And, like many philosophers, I am of the school that what goes without saying often goes even better with saying.)

I am listening to the wind, to the voice in the wind telling me to write it all down. So I do.

Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.

Nonfiction lets us learn more; fiction lets us be more.

I nodded, not trusting myself to speak. It's always like that. You think you've blown something off and then you say it out loud and suddenly you're all choked up and pathetic.

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

to pour out one's heart and not drink vodka at the same time, well, that is inconceivable for a Russian soul...

Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.

I'm the blues in your left thigh/ Trying to become the funk in your right." -LORENZ TATE/LOVE JONES SOUNDTRACK

The Spot is more like an erotic, interactive concert with extremely talented dancers rather than a simple strip joint.

I guess HoneyMama was right: Once a dancer, always a dancer, and that's not such a bad thing.

Miss Amesbury is especially happy in the use of quotations—and an apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.

My salvation is to let all this roll over me, to write, write and write some more. To hammer keys until I am finger worn to the second joint and then to hammer keys some more. To pile up copy, stack up stories, roll the wordage and generally conduct my life along the one line of success I have ever had. I write.

A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.

A bitter hatred was lifting his lip from his teeth.

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just learned that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

I know you don't approve of me or my ways, Ezra, but I got to make my way in this world the best I can. I got to work with what talents I got 'cause ain't nobody gonna look out for me but me. I will play my music, I will sing my songs, I will dance my dances. And sometimes, as I have found in my life, it's easier being a boy. That's the way of it. Till later, Ezra." I

In the still air the music lies unheard; In the rough marble beauty hides unseen; To make the music and the beauty needs The master's touch, the sculptor's chisel keen. Great Master, touch us with Your skillful hands; Let not the music that is in us die! Great Sculptor, hew and polish us; nor let, Hidden and lost, Your form within us lie!

I cry too much to be butch." The artist deadpanned, raising an eyebrow filled with intimidation at the young woman.

Very touching. Do you want me to imitate a violin?