Quotes About Expression

Rather than list hundreds of names in order of importance or in alphabetical or any other order, as I say, I have simply acknowledged them in the Notes. And instead of dozens and dozens of thank-yous, let there be just this one heartfelt expression of thanks.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The parallel, rather, is with human language. It is human to have the ability to speak, an essential part of the image of God in us. Nonetheless, concrete language, which exists in countless forms, is not native but acquired; it is learned.

Veertien Dertien had men net zo goed kunnen overslaan, omdat er alleen maar onzin in staat. Ik heb helemaal geen zoon, laat staan dat hij een rondleiding over mij zou presenteren in zaal Concordia. Eigenlijk had men één tot en met twaalf net zo goed kunnen overslaan omdat immers alles onzin is. Ik kan het weten, ik schrijf al die bullshit.

O, ik weet het niet, maar besta, wees mooi. Zeg: kijk, een vogel en leer me de vogel zien. Zeg: het leven is een brood om in te bijten en de appels zien nog rood van plezier, en nog, en nog, zeg iets. Leer me huilen, en als ik huil, leer me zeggen: het is niets.

Poëzie: de enige plaats waar onwetendheid het van academisme kan winnen.

We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.

A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

what we say or do is unimportant; it is merely semblance, beyond which our real life lies concealed... We know this better than we can prove, but in order to prove it we have to express it, and on the path to speech the essential somehow gets lost.

Incapable of communicating himself to others, incapable of breaking out of his isolation, doomed to remain the mere actor of his life, the deputy of his own ego—all that any human being can know of another is a mere symbol, a symbol of an ego that remains beyond our grasp, possessing no more value than that of a symbol; and all that can be told is the symbol of a symbol, a symbol at a second, third, nth remove, asking for representation in the true double sense of the word.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Ovšemže úsudky mohou být v mnoha p?ípadech nesprávné, jak se správn? obáváte. Ale o to práv? nejde, nýbrž o to, aby se dal žák?m svobodný prostor pro to vyjád?it své vlastní pocity, vlastní úsudky - i když jsou zkreslené.

Besides language and music mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

To him, English was still a mudslide of runny, slushy sounds that did not exist in his mother tongue—r, th, sh, and some particularly gelatinous vowels. Frawder thur prueless rare shur per thurst. Mirtler freckling thow. Gold freys yawder far cration. Crewl fry rackler friend thur. No shemling keal rearand for fear under shall an frick. Folger rich shermane furl hearst when pearsh thurlow larshes your morse claws. Clushes ream glown roven thurm shalter shirt.

exacta de los sentimientos que pretende ocultar.

In books, music, art I've always looked for emotion + elegance.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.

Silence is also a form of speaking.