Quotes About Expression

I just don't know which is worse, to say nothing or to say too much.

If you were quiet about something then it never happened. Someone would write a song about it for sure. Everything you're not supposed to know about, or talk about, eventually turned up in a song. Some

What most people don't understand about Jean-Michel is that his crazy behavior had nothing to do with being an enfant terrible. Everything he did was an attack on racism and I loved him for this.

He paints a simple square house with a triangle roof that has an S inside, Because, Suzanne, you are my home.

He refuses to sell his paintings and writes NOT FOR SALE on some of them. He is furious because people are writing about his ghetto childhood and call him a graffiti artist and primitive. They don't invent a childhood for white artists, he says.

Without music, our culture is a poor and soulless place where people simply exist but cease to live.

The last time I saw a brow that low I was watching slides in anthropology class

I was standing in the doorway when he said hi," Amy said. "And from the look on his face, what he has for you is not the key to the city.

Quinn talked with her entire body: arms, eyes, shoulders, mouth. She was performance art, so alive that sometimes he argued with her just so he could watch her flush and gesture.

I'm a feminist," Quinn said. "We get irrational urges.

I can say anything, but the things I want to say are trapped in that wide open space so I don't say anything at all.

and then, it's just me alone in bed with a man who can sleep with his back to me while I cry silent tears tha make the pillow wet around my head.

isn't that what happens in us in our lives? Don't we all reach out in our nights and our days, full of some mysterious agenda, and hope another person can somehow read our minds and give us our heart's desire? I wonder why we are like this. What happens to us along the way that makes us so afraid to ask for what we really want? And what do we become when we lose that ability?

Colpa è una parola che lui usa per farmi tacere

The pig is a unique animal in that we can eat it all—as the old expression says, "Everything but the oink." For the bone lover, the first step in enjoying both fresh and cured bone-in cuts is understanding the animal's skeleton.

Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.

mooo, she said... I mean mmmm, she moaned. Louder this time. Goddamn Dr. Seuss is ruining my sex life.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

I like blogs. they're good times.

Still waters run deep, I'd thought. Later, I learned that silence did not necessarily guarantee depth.

Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.

drawing of a boy with brown hair and

put his hands on Kim's shoulders, his expression was almost smug.

sing the prettiest songs