Quotes About Expression

One of my mother's friends was an artist. He showed me a few things – though warning me that to become an artist was the only certain way to starve.

well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes.

The simple act of writing Fraser's name had given him a sense of connexion, and he realized that the desperate need for such connexion was what had driven him to write it.

Mm. You'd forgotten how to say anything except 'I love you,' but you said that a lot.

Damn! Blazing Hades! That filth-eating son of a pig-fart!

My hens?" he said, outrage bringing the blood to his face.

furrowed. "Let

Stop it! It's too big! Take it out!

Jamie replied with what I had come to think of as a "Scottish noise," that indeterminate sound made low in the throat that can be interpreted to mean almost anything. This particular noise seemed to indicate some doubt as to the likelihood of such a desirable outcome.

Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes.

If there's true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it.

This is why you use imagery when writing about sex; it's a means both of evoking immediacy and of distilling emotion.

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.

Claire's hands moved when she talked, rising long and white in the air, as though she would catch the future between them and give it shape, would hand Jamie her thoughts as she spoke them, smooth and polished objects, bits of sculptured air.

Boxing the Jesuit?" Stephan nudged Grey with an elbow, and raised thick blond brows in puzzlement. "Cockroaches? What does this mean, please?" "Ahhh…" Having no notion of the German equivalent of this expression, Grey resorted to a briefly graphic gesture with one hand, looking over his shoulder to be sure that none of the women was watching. "Oh!" Von Namtzen looked mildly startled, but then grinned widely. "I see, yes, very good!

I thought I had not been out for long; I showed no symptoms of concussion or other ill effects from the blow, save a sore patch on the base of my skull. My captor, a man of few words, had responded to my questions, demands and acerbic remarks alike with the all-purpose Scottish noise which can best be rendered phonetically as Mmmmphm. Had I been in any doubt as to him nationality, that sound alone would have been sufficient to remove it.

A vida entre acadêmicos ensinara-me que uma opinião bem expressada em geral é melhor do que um fato mal expressado no que diz respeito a progresso profissional.

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. A

I have been in perturbation of mind for days, debating whether I shall write it, and now, having written, whether to send it.

You can't possibly have said what I think you said." "Indeed I did," he said, his normal dry edge returning.

balefully at his figures, rumpling a hand through his

Oh, well. There's a dance in the States, called the Shag. I gather I shouldn't ask you to do it with me here, though." "Not unless you mean it

They had learned not to expect him to talk until he had shaved; words came hard after a month's solitude. Not that he could think of nothing to say; it was more that the words inside formed a logjam in his throat, battling each other to get out in the short time he had. He needed those few minutes of careful grooming to pick and choose, what he would say first and to whom.

INK-STAINED WRETCH