Quotes About Expression

We could take his gag away , thought Isaac, and he wouldn't scream . . . but then he might speak . . . He left the gag in place.

In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things.

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.

I don't want to be a simile anymore," I said. "I want to be a metaphor.

Collingswood frowned at the clouds, like she did not like what they wrote.

shit, shit, shit.

He said, You'll write it not because there's no possibility it'll be found but because it costs too much to not write it.

I took the goats downslope a bit and they screamed at each other and I screamed too to see what it was like.

No existe nada igual en ningún sitio -dijo -. En ningún sitio. No se trata de los sonidos. No es en los sonidos donde vive el significado.

utterly human moan started from him, and it grew and grew until it became a bird

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.

Can living artwork die? Can it live before it dies?

staggering out of Language, into language

One in particular—the younger, named, he told us, Dahar Jaris, not the man Dhatt menaced, but a boy in a battered denim jacket with NoMeansNo written on the back in English print that made me suspect it was the name of a band, not a slogan—had a voice that was familiar.

But sharing has its limits. It might make you famous, but chances are it won't earn you a buck. It might find you new people to connect with, but it won't make it any easier to click with them. And it might let you tell the world what's on your mind; but it won't make the world listen.

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. "I want to be a metaphor.

His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate.

There are Six Essentials in painting. The first is called spirit; the second, rhythm; the third, thought; the fourth, scenery; the fifth, the brush; and the last is the ink.

Demiri nas?l tav?nda dövmek gerekiyorsa, çekiç darbelerini nas?l so?utmadan indirmek gerekiyorsa her kelimeyi de öyle tam zaman?nda söylemek gerekiyordu. O an? geçince söz so?uyor, kat?la??yor, insan?n yüre?ine ta? gibi oturuyor ve bu a??rl??? kald?r?p atmak hiç de kolay olmuyordu.

I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or something more tangible emerging from his very soul that could arouse such emotion in another person, and bring one's innermost thoughts to life?

All that had taken place in many years of life at Boranly-Burannyi junction, all this great strain over a long time, all the troubles, difficulties and joys he had lived through - all this had to be expressed in a few words of farewell in the few minutes of laying to rest. How much, yet how little, is given to a man!

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!