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Quotes About Expression

Present day—New York City Tequila is the Mexican version of the middle finger, the perfect "fuck you" to someone you either can't kill or haven't
~ Lisa Renee Jones
I'm not sure what he's implying, but I'm pretty sure it's a slap to Chris, and I don't like it. "Show and tell, Mark. It's a good combination.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
Laughter is like crying.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
His eyes, those famously blue eyes, narrow and his lips quirk slightly.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
No," I answer in English. "The musician, the player, makes all the difference, which is why he should have an instrument worthy of him.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
I want you to be there." "Why, Faith?" "Because that painting was the first one I painted for me in a very long time. And you're the first thing I've done for me in a very long time.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
Let feminism be this girl raging at a chandelier.
~ Unknown
Reading unfolds like a game called 'I,' in public gardens in good weather, in a series of worn-down hotel rooms, in museums in winter, where 'I' is the composite figure who is going to write but hasn't yet.
~ Unknown
I felt the sadness thoroughly. I believed it then. I wrote the sadness in my diary, I drank the sadness in my room or in cafés, I fucked the sadness. I almost believed I was the sadness.
~ Unknown
I stood in the horizontal and vertical cultures of words like a bar in a graph.
~ Unknown
It's hard to feel like you have to be something you're not.
~ Unknown
Tam knew what I was saying. He stared at me, his expression unreadable. "I need you to support the ceiling above the tear I'm going to make." "Yeah, yeah. I got it. You pull; I push. Let's go!" "I need control and delicacy, Raine." I snorted. "Too bad you're stuck with me.
~ Unknown
Words are the bricks and mortar of love.
~ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
Sad thing when stories die for the lack of listenin' ears.
~ Unknown
There are no right or wrong answers. Not when it comes to literature.
~ Unknown
An unenthusiastic chorus responds, "We encourage vigorous debate. Civil debate is a healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.
~ Unknown
My mama used to say if you frown on the outside long enough, eventually you'll grow a frown on the inside, too.
~ Unknown
I have lived my way into this music, note by note, and now I know no other.
~ Unknown
things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and that's not the kind of heart I want to have.
~ Unknown
even though Jack wasn't a romantic man in big showy ways, those little things let me know his feelings more than any high-dollar roses on Valentine's Day ever could have. In Corinthians, Paul says love's not boastful, so I reckon Jack got it right. His love was patient and quiet, and it endured.
~ Unknown
loudspeakers.
~ Unknown
I search the language for a word to tell you how red is red.
~ Lisel Mueller
When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.
~ Lisel Mueller
Sorry, No conprendo I don't speak Loser.
~ Lisi Harrison