Quotes About Expression

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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.

You mere device, he gnarled. You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina!

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I don't think clearly--too many thoughts bump into one another. Trains of thought run on a track of the Central Nervous System--the New York Central Nervous System, to make it worse.

Geep,' whuppled the parrot.

When I was a young writer, I liked to imagine that I was paying someone for every word I wrote, rather than being paid for it; it was a fine way to discipline myself to use only those words I needed.

The spike heels left a trail of silent reproach in the broadloom. Petite and lovely as the girl next door, Dusty eschewed manners and bras in a way that complimented her boss's more uptight, corseted approach to life.

The freedom of speech is meaningless without the freedom of attention, which is both its complement and prerequisite

It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.

Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?' 'If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes.

A person can be completely right about something but still not have the right to say it.

Every work of art carries with it a piece of the artist's soul. Paintings are windows to our human experience.

Fashion, like perfume, is more than an indulgence, it's a reflection of a woman, or the woman she aspires to be.

In a world where one can be anything, sometimes the hardest thing to be is yourself.

Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul.

La palabra golpea el aire y el espíritu, y obra sobre los sentidos y sobre el alma.

I have often dreamed of strangling my Creator.

Hard words will break no bones: But more than bones are broken By the inescapable stones Of fond words left unspoken.

Shakespeare = We all make his

Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

For action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.