Quotes About Expression

Every word we speak is an indestructible force, because it affirms a thought, a sentiment, an emotion, a motive, which never ceases to exert its power.

How many people delay the kindness, the expression of love, until the person is dead, beyond their reach, and then try to atone for a neglected past by flowers and tears at the funeral!

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.

I speak to everyone in the language they understand, said Ender. That isn't being slick. It's being clear

Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none.

She believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence of a person who never speaks.

Tenía miedo, y el miedo le ponía serio.

If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous.

most truth can only be expressed in circular paradoxes.

Writers create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Graff smiled a little Mona Lisa smile, if Mona Lisa had been a pudgy colonel.

aislarle lo suficiente para no ahogar su creatividad, pues en caso contrario adoptará el sistema imperante aquí y le echaremos a perder

The novelty and freshness you'll bring to the field won't come from the new ideas you think up. Truly new ideas are rare, and usually turn out to be variations on old themes anyway. No, your freshness will come from the way you think, from the person you are; it will inevitably show up in your writing, provided you don't mask it with heavy-handed formulas or clichés.

That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.

Why do I feel a song coming on? said Bean. The sarcastic words slipped out of him unbidden.

He had thought that he valued his solitude; now, though, with solitude forced upon him, he felt an urgent need to talk, to be heard by someone, as if he could not be sure he even existed without someone's conversation as evidence.

By the time they got home, they were both thoroughly bilingual in cursing. *