Quotes About Expression

You would have loved the gift I didn't bother getting you.

Nothing is more disappointing than a birthday card with no money inside.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be

Writers will happen in the best of families

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

That look you give your friend when they say something they weren't supposed to mention in front of your parents...

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

A man's best friends are his ten fingers.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking

Twitter makes me want to have drinks with people I've never met, and Facebook makes me want to throw drinks at people I already know.

The consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell your friends over and over again that you love them.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

If being a 'bi...' is what it takes to make my point clear, then I guess that's what I'll have to be.

And if he want some pus.. that's a no-no. I only fu..s with bad bi...es, no homo.