Quotes About Expression

It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

We have words but sometimes they're not enough.

It bothered him to think that the listeners might look at him as a broken down reel, trapped by sameness of his grief. Afterwards he would realize he had left out whole chunks of what he truly wanted to say.

There is nothing more substantial to place against the cruelty of the world than language.

He let the pieces of the napkin flutter to the floor and said something strange about words being good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

Everything falls into the hands of music eventually. The only thing that ever rescued me was listening to a big voice.

In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can't stop the lines in time, so I'm a novelist.

Una voz fuerte no puede competir con una voz clara, aunque esta sea un simple murmullo.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Behind every smile there's teeth.

A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom.

Language is insight itself.

Speaking (dao )" is a "guiding discourse (dao )." Said a different way, language is both performative and prescriptive; it both does something to the world and recommends how it should be.

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

I love you," she whispered, gazing up into his pale gray eyes. He smiled crookedly, for a moment looking at her with a dazzled air. He had, she realized sadly, no experience hearing those words. He didn't know how to react. "I figured as much." This time, she didn't hit him.

When feelings get so string they're woven into my bones, I can't talk about them without crying.

Moom' and 'tomb' actually rhyme, which is something Dickinson hardly ever did, preferring near-rhymes such as 'mat/gate', 'tune/sun,' and 'balm/hermaphrodite.

There are some things one is born to wear, and I had obviously been fated to wear this hat.

Lo que eres grita tan fuerte que no oigo lo que me dices»;

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.