Quotes About Expression

And judging by what she'd been saying when he walked in, she was also fond of penises. He really couldn't overlook such an important aspect of her personality.

Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

The best way I've found of understanding this is to think not so much of something "being" a color but of it "doing" a color.

Emily Kame Kngwarreye

The parrot had a range of phrases. His own name ('Niko, Niko'), the name of his original owner and now 'Stavros'. Occasionally he would also say 'Panagia mou', which could be an expression of piety but also a gentle expletive, depending on how it was said. With the parrot it was hard to tell. It did not sound pious.

spilled out like a volcanic eruption. Wardrobe

What's this?' I demanded, mimicking his hand motion. cole's gaze stopped roving. Looking me dead in the eyes, he said, 'Hot. Like...yesterday, you were...you know...whoa, but today...I mean, damn, woman. Damn!

Those jeans're so tight I can see your religion

As a rule, young children don't complain of wanting to fingerpaint but finding themselves mysteriously unable to do so.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

She cursed me at such length and with such inventiveness I had to check both my watch and my dictionary.

Your problem isn't that you think too much; your problem is letting everyone know what you're thinking.

Isn't that what education is all about? Getting the student to sincerely say what the teacher wants to hear? Keep that in mind.

No author was immune from having his own ideas and words quoted back to him favorably. Authors were, at heart, no matter how much they blustered or how suavely they carried themselves, insecure creatures with sensitive egos, as delicate in the constitution as movie stars, only much poorer and less glamorous.

And yet at Yan'an, Mao said that art and literature were crucial to revolution. Conversely, he warned, art and literature could also be tools of domination. Art

a talent is something you use, not something that uses you. The talent you cannot not use, the talent that possesses you—that is a hazard

Telling what must not be told is one of the writer's primary tasks. It is also a difficult and dangerous one.

I wonder if what I have should even be called talent. After all, a talent is something you use, not something that uses you. The talent you cannot not use, the talent that possesses you—that is a hazard, I must confess.

One must listen to them carefully to understand that while pain is universal, it is also utterly private. We cannot know whether our pain is like anybody else's pain until we talk about it. Once we do that, we speak and think in ways cultural and individual.

Writing was entering into fog, feeling my way for a route from this world to the unearthly world of words, a route easier to find on some days than others.

We shared a passion for words, but I preferred the silence of writing while she loved to talk. She

I cleared my throat of a sour taste, the gastric reflux of my confused Oriental and Occidental insides.

Such an interesting English expression "dog eat dog", since dogs don't really eat dogs (dogs do eat shit, but that's another story).

Merde! The single most useful word in the French language, easy to pronounce and eloquently expressive of conditions from the literally fecal to the unpleasantly existential.