Quotes About Expression

Culoarea ochilor nu-i decât expresia cuvintelor.

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

La hermana de Max, que está tan enamorada de su novio que intenta arreglárselas para hablar a solas con las visitas, pues cara a cara es más fácil explayarse sobre el amor y repetirse.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

by a new burlesque trick: fish swivels affixed to her pasties. The mechanism allowed Finnell to pinwheel her tassels in any direction, from any position, at any speed

In a conservative society, stability and order were far more important than freedom of expression.

Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It was an attempt to express their inner significance or to draw attention to realities that were too elusive to be discussed in a logically coherent way.

we rarely convey our thoughts adequately to others and this makes our relationships with other people problematic.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

Språket mangler ord for alt man ser og opplever når man flyr. Med tiden kommer man til å finne nye ord for disse inntrykkene.

Corpus bones, I thought. To be wedded to this perfumed prig with his mouth in a knot and a frown always on his face!

The mouth speaks what the heart has stored.

He can cook? In a manner of speaking, Mrs. Treadwell said, cheerfully. What manner of speaking is that?

I suppose you heard him yelling as the doctor set his leg. I never knew there were so many rude words in the English language. Or French, German, Italian, Latin,or....there was another language I didn't quite recognize. Greek.

Never underestimate the importance of what a woman says in bed. It's one of the few places they will tell you exactly what they are thinking.

I must admit that I never expected to find such beauty here. His gaze raked her again. It quite takes my breath away. Sophia quirked a brow. He didn't look breathless. He looked calm and collected-a bit predatory, perhaps, but nothing to suggest that her appearance had been anything more than a pleasant surprise.

Women prefer to draw blood using words. It can cause just as much havoc, but it doesn't stain the carpet.

to say that dust bunnies were the spirit animals of creatives.

You might be shown the photos of the space chimps in their helmets, grinning from ear to ear, and you might feel an urge to tell the rest of your class that chimps grin like that only when they're frightened, that no amount of time among humans will change it. Those happy-looking space chimps in those pictures are frankly terrified and maybe you just barely stop yourself from saying so.

How was your day, Rosie?" Dad would ask when he came home from work and I'd tell him it was ebullient. Or limpid. Or dodecahedron. "That's good to hear," he'd say.

Please assume that I am talking continuously in all the scenes that follow until I tell you that I'm not.

I raised the ratio of things I thought to things I said from three to one, to four to one, to five, to six, to seven. I still thought as much as ever, and sometimes I imagined the responses I would have gotten if I had spoken up and what I would have then said next, and so on and so on. Without the release of talking, these thoughts crowded my brain. The inside of my head turned clamorous and outlandish, like the Mos Eisley spaceport bar in Star Wars.

I am shaking it, popping it, laying it down and working it out