Quotes About Expression

Goodness!" he cried. "Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne!

In the case of this sonata, Nero had apparently been inspired by somebody beating up a cat

rather split his trousers than an infinitive.

He had the wide toothy smile of the Oriental.

Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.

He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.

My parents are artists in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

Sign language occupies the interstice where space and silence come together; sign language is the locus where the body meets language.

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can.

The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.

My role in society, or any artist or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

I'm not gonna change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know, I'm one of those people.

I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.

Half of what I say is meaningless But I say it just to reach you

For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles. I just believe in me Yoko and me

The only honest art form is laughter.