Quotes About Expression

She is not an attractive crier. Few children are. Matthew was an exception. He cried so elegantly.

perhaps the public expression of trust in the Supreme Court reflects a leap of faith rather than actual knowledge; people want to believe in some governmental institution, and they are more likely to be able to identify what they don't like about the political branches. Or

The thing we are trying to say is in the language of leaves.

Sometimes I lay my body down on a marble slab . . . and become poetry.

I knew my box of paints, stored away on the bedroom shelf of my small house across the ocean, could never create such colors.

Mon livre, pour exister, avait mangé d'autres livres.

Écrire, disait [Georges Perros], c'est renoncer au monde en implorant le monde de ne pas renoncer à nous. (p. 37)

When adults ignore their children's feelings, children come to believe their feelings are not important. When we repeatedly threaten or punish children for a display of emotion, children learn that emotions are dangerous things that need to be held inside and hidden—an invitation to later depression or rage.

It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.

I think that if we can find the words, and if we can find someone to tell them to, then perhaps we can see things differently. But I had no words, and I had nobody. - 153

I have stopped painting. I stand in front of the easel, brush in hand, but my mind is blank. It is as if I have been struck by a strange kind of blindness.

The word may be mightier than the sword, but except for the s they are pretty much the same. Both are used to kill--and to save.

And she found her voice. "Thank you," she said, and looked up at him bravely. "Thank you for bringing the water.

Ish ish AY!" It was not easy to speak clearly through a gargantuan mouthful of cheeseburger. Dan was trying to say "This is GREAT!" but the words came out filtered through ground sirloin and two slices of cheese.

If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma."

When you're living through an experience, it's hard to imagine yourself outside it. But when you revisit it in a Write, you see yourself in a fuller context, which gives you information you didn't have before

MacKenzie defines imperialism as being 'more than a set of economic, political and military phenomena. It is also a complex ideology which had widespread cultural, intellectual and technical expressions.'8

What was hard was discovering the true life of the poem inside its technical scaffolding.

She had come to think of the poet as song-maker, not as scholar with her head

I am not hysterical. I'm angry, you pompous toad!." Riona tore away.

and a new dress because her asshole husband had bought an ugly funeral outfit she was stuck in for eternity

We each have a story to tell, I know; so let each one take his turn.

Edith would always believe art was for everyone, whether rich or poor, educated or not.

he was reluctant to return to New York, a town less supportive of his sort of art.