Quotes About Expression

Nature meant his face to be expressive but he did not; for an expression is a give-away and he did not want to give anything away.

He seldom spoke his thoughts and still more rarely, and then only in anger, did he speak his feelings, because to expose them made him feel naked, and worse than naked—flayed.

Keep writing. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Put some words on paper. You never know what will happen.

Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.

It is the glory and the merit of some men to write well, and of others not to write at all.

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.

To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

I go about things in an oblique way. It's like a sidelong glance. This doesn't mean I don't like the sharp stab of directness—only that what I like more are all the moments, leading up to that moment of directness or that expression of rage . . . how long rage was silenced before it exploded and at what cost.

There is not a trace of blood anywhere except here, in my throat, where I am telling you all this.

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Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.

She could be the woman, the lady, who wished to be proper, who wished to please, as well as the wanton she obviously was instructed, and loved, to be.

She opened her eyes and stared into a face filled with desire. It was an expression she longed to see a man show toward her.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.

I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.