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Quotes About Expression

Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
~ Matthew Arnold
I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb!
~ MC Lars
Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .
~ Michelle Moran
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.
~ Myrtle Reed
Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.
~ Nalini Singh
No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.
~ Napoleon Hill
I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.
~ Nick Nolte
The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.
~ Nicolas Cage
I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips
~ Nicole Krauss
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.
~ Norman Cousins
What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?
~ Norman Mailer
Sweetie, she-warriors don"t scream. We wow our men with a look, tame them with a smile.
~ P. C. Cast
All men are creative but few are artists.
~ Paul Goodman
Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.
~ Perry Brass
Men at an earlier age, get the feminine aspects of them wrung out in a variety of ways.
~ Peter Buffett
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.
~ Peter De Vries
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.
~ Peter Greenaway
Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.
~ Pierre Trudeau
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?
~ Pietro Metastasio