Quotes About Expression

Penelope frowned. "I thought you had a headache?" "In my leg I do," Beowulf explained. "From chicken pox." He hopped on his one good leg and made chicken noises. "Buck-buck, buck-buck!

Agatha Swanburne - "Not all things should be baked in a pie.

Be a good egg and speak up.

popping a wheelawooo"),

Lamb chop, yuk.

My for example is woofs.

No nap! Mew-eezum!

And by the DODO, I mean me.

ba-ba or a noo-noo,

Ahbearrrrrrrrrrrr!

Thankawoo very much.

Further experimenting showed that water exposed to positive expressions like "Let's do it!" created attractive, well-formed crystals, but that water exposed to negative expressions like "Do it!" barely formed any crystals at all.

Gewiß, ich bin sehr happy: Doch glücklich bin ich nicht.

Mein schönstes Gedicht? Ich schrieb es nicht. Aus tiefsten Tiefen stieg es. Ich schwieg es.

To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.

Faced with a brass band that was positioned to drown out free speech, Russian activists reacted to the potential confrontation with lemons. With activists eating lemons or pretending to, involuntary saliva reaction of the band made it impossible for them to interrupt.

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth