Quotes About Expression

My sexual preference is often.

I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

But it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?...

We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.

The orator... is... most eloquent when most silent.

Jumping, leaping, and skipping are the natural expressions of an individual's happiness and vitality.

If you are happy, go skipping. If you are sad, go skipping!

Skipping is inner joy meets outer joy.

Skipping is just a dancing walk, or if you prefer, a walking dance.

The only cure for writer's block is insomnia.

Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?

A smile confuses an approaching frown.

A smile is like tight underwear — it makes your cheeks go up.

Smile with your lips, smile with your eyes, smile with your heart and your soul and your life.

Is a smile a question? Or is it the answer?

It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place