Quotes About Expression

She was chatty and emotional and loved to string words together in dizzying tiers that climbed and climbed toward some tower of language that lost Sean somewhere on the third floor.

She couldn't tell if the sadness in his smile stemmed from pity for her or if he just possessed a sad smile.

You should write because some stray scrap of your soul is trying to manifest itself verbally.

Poetry is important to people in a crisis, as love and intelligence are important. These are survival tools.

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

My only regret is to die four pages too soon.

There are two ways to choke off free expression. We've already discussed one of them: clamp down on free speech and declare some topics off-limits. That strategy is straightforward enough. The other, more insidious way to limit free expression is to try to change the very language people use.

Humans don't really like freedom of speech, Lukianoff told them, they like to say they like it. And they definitely like their won freedom of speech. They don't necessarily like your freedom of speech that much

When to get angry and when and how to express it are among the most important lessons humans can learn. Cain's rage at Abel is a classic example of misplaced rage.

This verse uses the Hebrew word milacha to refer to work instead of the more common word avoda. Milacha is not truly translatable; it is best understood as creative work—work that produces something.

The white cat Sal-al was lying on the straw matting in the empty conservatory. She looked at us with a wicked, conceited expression as if all her appetites had just been satisfied. She was beautiful. Vesta and I both said, I wish I were a cat! Before we got to the last word we smiled at each other in annoyance, not liking the idea that most human beings think very much alike.

I wrote about the night bird cries, the sea sounds and the lonely barking, and I liked what I wrote in flashes; but something was wrong with it. There is always something wrong with writing. So I tore the paper up at last, liking the untouched memory so much better, not wanting it forced into the insincerity of words.

A curse could also be likened to a long, evil arm stretched out from the past. It rests upon you with a dark, oppressive force that inhibits the full expression of your personality. You never feel completely free to be yourself. You sense that you have potential within you that is never fully developed. You always expect more of yourself than you are able to achieve.

The main vehicle of both blessings and curses is words. Such words may be spoken or written or merely uttered inwardly.

Every word I have written took the wrong approach. I

Here is where a real fresco should be painted, one without importance, but one with real faith, mapless, Historyless.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Giving the emotion a name is the way we come to understand how what happened affected us. After we've told the facts of what happened, we must face our feelings. We are each hurt in our own unique ways, and when we give voice to this pain, we begin to heal it.

Any woman who doesn't have a little bit of whore in her is pretty much a dried up stick.

A young man is afraid of his demon and pulls his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him.

Why does no one in America recite poetry?" Aziz complains. "They go to the coffeehouse and they just drink the coffee.

Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes.

I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.