Quotes About Expression

the importance of words as "the signs of our thoughts and feelings in all their minutest shades and variations.

I've censored my true feelings more and more, replacing them with lies that I know everyone wants to hear. I've felt like I've lost my right to have an opinion, just because I know no one will back me up. But we should all have the courage to speak out about what's bothering us about this school and beyond. Maybe people won't like what you have to say. Perhaps you'll find that you're not alone.

Words can be used as a bomb or balm.

Parentheses speak More than we dare say out loud Why, oh, why is that?)

HOLY MOTHER. WAS THAT A FACE?

So where should we go at it?' asked Bastian. 'Anywhere you want me,' I murmured, dreamily. 'Pardon?' 'Anywhere,' I said. 'Why don't we start in a familiar place, so we are not nervous our first time?' I have to remind myself that this is real, and not part of the daydream. He's talking about the Storytelling Project. Not sex.

Oh, Christ. That's exactly the type of thing that warrants a journal burning.

Happy entries in my journal do not exist. Or if they do, they end abruptly with scenes and sentences left unfinished because they are too gushy in a way that is disturbing and sick and foreign.

words can serve as a bomb or a balm..." -Harmony

Squeenk! Ribbet!

Oh my," I said. "Thank you.

As Virginia Woolf testified in On Being Ill, "English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. . . . The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.

A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain!

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivaled heights.

A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music!

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

All we do in our lifetime is to scream in different ways to get attention in this dark universe!

Art is a hot soup in this cold world!

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

Birdcage is a shame!

Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

Burning books is not as horrible as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

Elvis Presley once said that I don't know anything about the music. It is because he is the music itself! The nightingales don't know anything about the music!

Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!