Quotes About Expression

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

People who say real men don't wear pink obviously don't know any real men!

She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

I want to do a make-up line for men.

If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.