Quotes About Expression

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

I can't sing. Never been able to sing. I can't do voices very well. Every impression I do sounds the same. I can't dunk. Man, would I give anything to dunk. Just once.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

It's not that I don't like penises. I just don't like them on men.

I don't like men. They're saying they're going to bash my head in.

A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000.

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.

Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.