Quotes About Expression

and it's the creation of Miss Virginia Rappe, a young woman who has lifted fashion designing to the plane of fine art.

Mm-mm, no, thank you, no, I don't want an enchilaaadaaa. Nor do I want a burr-eye-to. Or a tay-co. Or any other bizarre, unneccessary vowel substitutions.

Punctuation is meant only to clarify. And fruit off with the little smiley faces.

She had spoken, her words coming in fragments as her voice faded in and out of hoarseness. "You know," she'd said softly to the throng of listeners, "we're more than this." She'd swung an open hand around to indicate the throng of listeners, the bright lights, the police cars. "We're more than just this.

Travers shot Jade a look of annoyance when he began to chew on an ice cube. He, of course, didn't notice.

Oh my god!" Travers exclaimed. "See no evil, hear no evil—

Then he was silent. Just like last time—one outburst and back to silence or dispassionate interaction.

Circumcision was God's way of marking his people with a visible pledge to honor his covenant for those who expressed faith in him.

McKay made no secret of his passion for free agency, speaking frequently on the subject in public settings.

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

His ass knows more words than his mouth does.

The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

Surely I'd give it for a nipple a rubber Tacitus For a rattle bag of broken Bach records Tack Della Francesca all over its crib Sew the Greek alphabet on its bib And build for its playpen a roofless Parthenon

I feel very strongly that every artist has one central story to tell. The struggle is to tell and retell that story over and over again, visual form, and try to challenge that story. But at the core that story remains the same. It's like the defining story of who you are. -Gregory Crewdson, "Brief Encounters" http://www.gregorycrewdsonmovie.com/

There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitiveand getting away with itis far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

Her sentences were icebergs, with just the tip of her thought coming out of her mouth, and the rest kept up in her head, which I was starting to think was more and more beautiful the longer I looked at her.

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.