Quotes About Expression

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.

I've never been afraid to be who I really am on screen.

Mein gutes altes kroatisches Herz beschleunigte von Walzer zu Death Metal .

Don't you want to tell the story yourself?' I asked my father one snowy, bright autumn Sunday. 'Ach. Who wants to hear a leaf tell the story of the wind?

A trebuit sa ma multumesc cu a mi se spune Erra, caci atunci cand zeul limbii le-a dat francezilor alfabetul, litera h a ramas incuiata in biblioteca, iar francezii sufera de pe urma acestei pierderi si azi. Pentru ei, heroian e eroina, iar hotelul e otel.

I'm half of everything I hate, and half of everything I create.

My mouth tastes like all the things I should have said.

I see all things in this world as more beautiful than I, and I spin the details of their atoms in every paragraph and brushstroke.

Be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues.

How strange to write about "having" when for so long I've drawn inspiration only from longing?

They cry, "But I WANT to be a writer!" And my head hangs. You are asking to be shot square in the head. You know not what you seek. You ask for bleeding brains and carnage that stains your pillowcase. You ask for jelly in the place of the cartilage in your spine. You ask for kindness that is never returned. You wish to burn alive in the flame of a love unrequited. It's simple. Write.

But mostly poetic I'm whatever I've seen on a movie screen

Art involves forgetfulness of immediate ends; complete surrender to the inward impulse to give form to the beautiful idea or image of truth because it is beautiful.

All my own making," Estelle said. "Oh, of course, sister held the nails and bossed, but I did it. I like it, too. It's more fun than working red poppies on tidies—that's about all they'll let you do back East." "It doesn't matter much what you do out here," said Rivers, meaningly. "Oh yes, it does. Some things are wrong anywhere; but there are other things which people think are wrong that are only unusual," she answered, and he knew she knew what he meant.

Don't ever diminish the power of words. Words move hearts and hearts move limbs.

The written English we want is clean, clear prose. I choose my words carefully – not elegant, not stylish, just clean, clear prose. It means simplifying, polishing and tightening.

Write so simply that any other officer who knows nothing of the subject can still understand you. To do this, avoid confusion and give words their ordinary meanings.

All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

Meow is like aloha — it can mean anything.

Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.

Latin texts and "tried on" various nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, inventing new ones along the way; in the process he would have acquired his vocabulary of some 25,000 words, more than twice the size of the one possessed by John Milton.