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Quotes About Expression

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.
~ Norm MacDonald
Hopefully standup will become special again.
~ Marc Maron
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
~ Shelley Berman
America is where standup comedy was born. It's the standard. So you want to go and do your job where this is the mecca of what you do.
~ Gad Elmaleh
I couldn't have invented crisps. ... I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. ... I invented apples. ... I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil.
~ Noel Fielding
I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
~ Pete Townshend
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.
~ Sophie Calle
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
~ Tennessee Williams
I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
~ Antonin Artaud
I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap!
~ Sanaa Lathan
I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.
~ Ted Shawn
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
~ Theophile Gautier
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
~ Victor Hugo
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
~ Havelock Ellis
A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.
~ Jack Kirby
One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.
~ John Marshall Harlan II
As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.
~ Kadir Nelson
No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.
~ KRS-One
Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.
~ David Bowie
Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.
~ Eicca Toppinen
Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
~ Fannie Hurst