Quotes About Expression

John Lennon once said that whenever he had an idea, he'd scribble it on a piece of paper and throw it in a drawer. When the drawer was full, he knew it was time for a new album.

rant to Yasmin as I thump out the text message to my boyfriend Stuart.

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.

So mancher Mann hat viel verloren, nur weil er eine perfekte Gelegenheit verpasst hat, nichts zu sagen.

Red is much nicer than blue.

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate.

Is there a word? A friend, a companion, or maybe just a sharer. What good are words? I mean, I think people often try to find through sex, things that are much easier to find in other ways.

The excitement in London gave no guarantees about the future, and he still committed himself to no direct expression of opinion in his Diary.

application of force. How much else have I not registered? Her prosody

leaves out verbs and articles and pronouns and prepositions, in what those who know autism call "telegraphic speech.

A funny thing happens when more than one knitter gathers in a public place. A solo knitter, presuming she is a woman, quickly fades into the backdrop like a potted palm or a quietly nursing mother. ... A single knitter is shorthand for "nothing to see here, move on." But when knitters gather, we become incongruously conspicuous. We are a species that other people aren't used to seeing in flocks, like a cluster of Corgis, a dozen Elvis impersonators waiting for the elevator.

All knitting is choreography.

Nothing is a stronger cultural lightning rod than two needles and a ball of yarn. But

You are the boss of your knitting and can do what you like; there is no "wrong" in knitting as long as you are pleased with the results.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Yo, poeta de oficio, condenada tantas veces

For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting.

The word is my fourth dimension.

Escrevo por não ter nada a fazer no mundo: sobrei e não há lugar para mim na terra dos homens. Escrevo porque sou um desesperado e estou cansado, não suporto mais a rotina de me ser e se não fosse a sempre novidade que é escrever, eu me morreria simbolicamente todos os dias. (A hora da estrela)

I write very simple and very naked. That's why it wounds. I'm a grey and blue landscape. I rise in a dry fountain and in the cold light.