Quotes About Expression

Great men, like nature, use simple language.

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

Without a song the day would never end Without a song the road would never bend When things go wrong a man ain't got a friend Without a song

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.

... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

Men's language is as their lives.

Some things just push a man's buttons. This goes beyond what we say-and into how we say it.

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.