Quotes About Expression

I tried to tell people about it, but I was drunk: they thought I was talking in riddles or metaphors.

dark look crossed his face, but

Fashion speaks for itself.

Have you missed me too?" She met his gaze, her eyes intensely blue. "If I have, you will find I am not nearly as demonstrative with my affection as Burr.

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

Say something worth the words.

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

the body is what we lean toward, tensing as it darts, dancing away. but it's the voice that enters us. even saying nothing. even saying nothing over and over absently to itself

It used to be, you'd open your mouth And the weather changed. You'd Open your mouth and the sky'd spill That dry, missing-someone kind of rain No matter the season. And it hurt Like a guitar hurts under the right hands. Like a good strong spell. Now You're all song. Body gone to memory. And guess what? It hurts Harder.

Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?

Sometimes telling what happened, in whatever way you can, is a means of lightening your burden. It summons others to help you bear the weight of your own story, so that you might finally get out from under it.

There are ways of entering the dream / The way a painter enters a studio: / To spill.

A poem can lie.)

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

If disease is an expression of individual life under unfavorable conditions, then epidemics must be indicative of mass disturbances of mass life.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.

The Psalms put us in touch with our deepest emotions.

We can't read the Psalms without an emotional response.

if we follow the example of the psalmist The Psalms are an honest expression of emotions.

Distracted by emotion, she was drying her eyes with a slice of bread.

Shall I tell you what I'm thinking, Mrs. Ferrier?" "Heavens no, Nicholas! That would take hours, and we have only moments.