Quotes About Expression

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

When it comes to 'Glee ' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.

You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

You are what you share.

Good mornin', blues, blues how do you do?Good mornin', blues, blues how do you do?I'm doin' all right, good mornin', how are you?

I have been too fond of stories.

The involuntary poetry of one who is not fluent in the language.

Such a leaky emotion, jealousy, it always showed through, like grease on a paper bag.

The words came fast and slow, because the act of writing plunged me so wantonly down slippery avenues of thought that frequently I found myself not writing at all, my mouth open on a half-formed word with which my hand had been unable to keep pace and from which my mind had careened many seconds or whole minutes earlier like a horse having thrown its rider.

He spoke slowly; I had a sense he was groping between words for the thread of his own thoughts.

A dry little laugh at the grotesquerie of using this stock phrase. At having occasion to use it.

How eagerly the words spring into shape, winding themselves around a rigid latticework of meaning like the curling tendrils of ivy that crisscross my window. The skeletal branches, whose intricate fretwork clings to the screen, hold tight against a lashing wind and pelting rain.

like it or not, what we dress in is a direct reflection of who we are personally, socially, and historically.

But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.

everyone who works on the movies is considered an artist. Everyone works together to tell stories,

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

Drop Out--detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On--find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune In--be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision.

After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.

When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world.

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.