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Quotes About Expression

I took an especially deep breath, smell notwithstanding, exhaled, and shut my eyes with decision. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. That had been one of Frank's favorite expressions, and by and large, a good sentiment. Depends a bit on the day, though, doesn't it? I thought in his direction.
~ Diana Gabaldon
friend's face that something terrible had happened. The fact that he was seeing Jamie Fraser's face at all was evidence enough of that, never mind the look of the man.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The lawyer had gone a mottled red and gray, like a bad oyster, but said nothing. Jamie
~ Diana Gabaldon
shall be verra pleased when he's taken his damned cheroots
~ Diana Gabaldon
But it was something to do with the paintings Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Diana Gabaldon
Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye while ye wake, but the same poor words, again and again. While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them. Go
~ Diana Gabaldon
the pinched face of a man with
~ Diana Gabaldon
whinnied loudly. An answering neigh came
~ Diana Gabaldon
Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Talkin' like dogs fightin'," he explained. "Grrrr! Wuff!" He growled, shaking his head in illustration like a dog worrying a rat, and I saw Fergus's shoulders shake in suppressed hilarity. "Scots for sure," I said, trying not to laugh.
~ Diana Gabaldon
When you write it down…" he said. "Does that make it—whatever it is—real again? Or does the act of putting it into words make it unreal? You know, something…separate from yourself.
~ Diana Gabaldon
He was leaning on his desk, chin in his hands, staring at me. "There are shocks," I said precisely, smoothing back my damp curls and giving him an eyeball, "and then there are shocks. If you know what I mean." He looked surprised; then a flicker of understanding came into his expression.
~ Diana Gabaldon
appealing than truth and rationality. The words
~ Diana Gabaldon
Ah? Oh, it means honeylips, all right. More or less." "But—" "It's no your mouth he was referring to, Sassenach," Jamie said dryly.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Drunk wi' power," he remarked disapprovingly to the ceiling. "Verra unwomanly attitude, that.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I didn't see myself in Jia Jhangke or Wong Kar-Wai films. Those are Asian filmmakers, and I very much am an American filmmaker.
~ Lulu Wang
There was never a point where I thought, 'I'm going to do something Asian American.'
~ Lee Isaac Chung
Sometimes, we want Asians in the media, but we don't want them to talk about being Asian. For me, that's interesting because I'm from Asia. If you want me to be on television but I can't be Asian, I'm not being true to myself.
~ Ronny Chieng
Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.
~ Gemma Arterton
I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general.
~ Mija
A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
~ Walter Kirn
When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
~ Olivier Megaton
I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.
~ Jenny Lewis
Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.
~ Simon Callow