Quotes About Expression

Mais tarde descobri que não gosta nem de poesia nem de música. Ainda assim, liguei o toca-discos e dei-lhe os patrícios, Bethânia, Caetano. E se não dei televisão é porque acho aquilo o fim. Embora esteja pensando numa mas só para ver os filmes antigos. E os longas-metragens de vampiros e monstros.

A Brazilian film? Naturally, if there's a bed, a woman with a raffish expression, and a man in only his underwear, it could only be Brazilian cinema.

Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.

I have feelings, but my pen cannot and will not write feelings; nay, my heart has no mind that can coin them into words.

Literature, music, art, and the stage were thought to be only for bohemians, who were regarded as the unpractical estrays of life who could do nothing better than act, paint, play, and write stories.

That God is in nature, filling it with himself, as the spirit fills the body with its presence, so that all nature forces are but expressions of the divine will, and all nature laws but habits of divine action -- this is the doctrine of Fatherhood.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is not possible even to state the doctrine of an atheistic creation without using the language of theism in the statement.

A man is no less a person because he can speak in New York and be heard in Chicago, or press a button in Washington and set machinery in motion in Omaha. Extension of power does not lessen the personality of him who exercises it.

But neither painting, literature, music, nor architecture is so impressive as life.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

i believe [images] are the soul's immune system and transit system.

painted three quadrants

Only when pressed did Mabel admit that they'd never met face to face. At most, she'd 'once' glimpsed her object 'flitting' away. 'Flitting' fits the legend of shyness, a shrinking creature, but the cutting edge of the Dickinson voice conveys the opposite: it's bared, at the ready.

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

Silly language was very much a part of our lives so stringing together nice sentences and being conscious of interesting words were the sorts of things I enjoyed as a child.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Today Mrs. Beasley began by clearing her throat. Again, this isn't a worrisome sign. Librarians are not overly talkative so our throats can get froggy from lack of use.

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

I wanted to stand up and shout that this was unfair, but loud voices were not permitted in the library.

If I could communicate only by words on a page, how much more satisfactory I would be!