Quotes About Expression

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.

The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them.

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

The hardest thing for me is crying. Where I'm from, it's been instilled in me since I was little that men don't cry. Thank God for teardrops and menthol.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.

Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.