Quotes About Expression

Sometimes,' he whispered at last, 'sometimes, I dream I am singing, and I wake from it with my throat aching.' He couldn't see her face, or the tears that prickled at the corners of her eyes. 'What do you sing?' she whispered back. She heard the shush of the linen pillow as he shook his head. 'No song I've ever heard, or know,' he said softly. 'But I know I'm singing it for you.

Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ! -Claire

If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.

I'm afraid that my wife picked up a number of colorful expressions from the Yanks and such, Frank offered, with a nervous smile. True, I said, gritting my teeth as I wrapped a water-soaked napkin about my hand. Men tend to be very colorful when you're picking shrapnel out of them.

Lord, he'd said. Let me be enough. That prayer had lodged in my heart like an arrow when I'd heard it and thought he asked for help in doing what had to be done. But that wasn't what he'd meant at all—and the realization of what he had meant split my heart in two. I took his face between my hands, and wished so much that I had his own gift, the ability to say what lay in my heart, in such a way that he would know. But I hadn't.

a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact

Ahora sé por qué los judíos y los musulmanes tienen novecientos nombres para denominar a Dios; al amor no le basta con una palabra.

Now, then. What does 'fucking' mean?

Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact

Nice clothes are all very well, but if gossip and scheming and worry and silly parties and tiny rules of etiquette go with them Ã¢â'¬Â¦ no. I'd as soon live in my shift and say what I like.

Who needed the relief of occasional bad language more than a mother of small children? Maybe

At the best of times, Father Bain's face resembled a clenched fist.

Je t'aime, it said: I love you. Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément, pas du tout: A little, a lot, passionately—not at all.

Turd-eating son of a flying tortoise

Do you have any idea how mortifying it is to have your own mother standing up in front of everybody, drawing pictures of penises?

Getting fully into the spirit of the thing, I finished off my masterpiece with a rude word

He choked, laughed in a shocked way, wept a little more

Una dama novelista me dijo una vez, que escribir novelas era arte de caníbales, pues uno mezcla con frecuencia pequeñas porciones de sus amigos y sus enemigos, los sazona con imaginación y permite que todo eso se cocine en un sabroso guiso

a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so

Oh, yes," I said. "My favorite was one I picked up from a Yank. Man named Williamson, from New York, I believe. He said it every time I changed his dressing." "What was it?" " 'Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ,' " I said, and dropped the sugar

Don't go overboard in avoiding "said." Basically, "said" is the default for dialogue, and a good thing, too; it's an invisible word that doesn't draw attention to itself.

Mmphm," I said, sounding self-consciously Scottish.

Your husband should tan ye, woman," said an austere voice from the blackness under a tree. "St. Paul says 'Let a woman be silent, and—' " "You can mind your own bloody business," I snarled, sweat dripping behind my ears, "and so can St. Paul.

Kalbin sesi, dudaklardan dökülen herhangi bir yeminden çok daha gürültülüdür.