Quotes About Expression

Find a man whose words paint you a likeness, you have found a man worth something; mark his manner of doing it, as very characteristic of him.

A Good Book is the purest essence of a Human Soul ''.

Of the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy are the things we call Books! –

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Faygne woulde I curse thee further, botte mie tyngue Denies mie harte the favoure soe toe doe.

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

Again and again Someone in the crowd wakes up. He has no ground in the crowd And he emerges according to much broader laws. He carries strange customs with him and demands room for bold gestures. The future speaks ruthlessly through him. —Rainer Maria Rilke (Über Kunst, 1899)

The burden of the incommunicable.

Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.

When I was younger, acting, singing and dancing was what it was all about. That's really what kept me in school because I was really naughty otherwise.

I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

The stage is near and dear to me.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

To be able to inspire somebody just by doing something that you love, just by creating your art, is something that's very near and dear to my heart.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.