Quotes About Expression

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

Too often the price exacted by society for security and respectability is that the Christian movement in its formal expression must be on the side of the strong against the weak.

In the face of these alternatives Jesus came forth with still another. On this point Simkhovitch makes a profound contribution to the understanding of the psychology of Jesus. He reminds us that Jesus expressed his alternative in a "brief formula—The Kingdom of Heaven is in us.

The conventional Christian word is muffled, confused, and vague.

Wherever it's spoken, Gaelic sounds like a combination of Swedish and Hebrew.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

When I was a little baby, my mama she said "Son. Travel where you will and grow to be a man And sing what must be sung, poor boy Sing what must be sung."

Taxidermia. Art forms come in many ways, but nothing conveys a psychopathic outlook more then stuffing your dead pet.

On July 26 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

Who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words

Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if we are reaching anyone...

he suddenly swerved in the other lane and there was the screeching of brakes and screams and curses and he gave them all the finger out the window and continued to weave his way through the traffic, giving his perpetual finger to the horn blowers as he pounded his own, and yelling to them, What else ya get fa Christmas besides a new horn

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.

No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.

When you write about the people you hate the most, do it with love.

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice. Theodore Roosevelt

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

If a beautiful women expressed interest in me and my company, I don't really probe their motivations. Call me shallow.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

Chesterton never achieves a great poem because his poems are compilations of statements not intensely felt but only intensely meant.