Quotes About Expression

That was how history worked, wasn't it? If it wasn't written down it never existed. You might leave behind jewelry and pottery, ornamental tombs, you might leave behind your own bones to be dug up at a later age, but none of those artifacts could express how you felt .

The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself." SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD

He caught the look on her face, a mixture of distaste and confusion which eventually resolved into something more cryptic. Women usually needed to be acquainted with him a little longer before he saw that expression on their faces.

words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

She] went around with a beatific smile on her face that could be very irritating if you yourself weren't feeling beatific.

but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.

And I can't cry, I don't even want to cry. My tears would never do justice to this loss.

Don't seek out elaborate metaphors," her English teacher had said of her school essays, but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!

When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.

If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations, and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.