Quotes About Expression

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

Dance is an art in space and time. The object of the dancer is to obliterate that.

I da ?e on biti sre?an da upozna djevojku tako tužnih o?iju koja, da, da, kada se smeje o?i su joj još tužnije.

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.

Huonokin teksti on aina parempi kuin ei tekstiä ollenkaan. Huono teksti on lähtökohta, mutta jos teksti puuttuu, ei ole mitään.

Kaikessa kirjoittamisessa on tietenkin kaksi puolta: totta kai täytyy olla jotain mistä kirjoittaa, mutta täytyy myös osata kirjoittaa.

Tottumaton kirjoittaja saattaa kuvitella, että ensin mietitään mitä halutaan kirjoittaa, niin että se on valmiina päässä ennen kirjoittamista, mutta oikeastaan ei voi tietää mitä ajattelee ennen kuin alkaa kirjoittaa, sillä kirjoittaessaan ajattelee

My books are my brain and my heart made visible.

I'll tell you this, though. It's not true, that saying about sticks and stones; it's words that break your bones.

There it was, out at last, and if it seems like nothing very much, I can only say that it took a long time to say it, to be able to say it, and none of the journey was easy.

She said that if I ever did produce an autobiography I should call it, Exit, Talking. This

That was the time for me to have said, "After all these years, is that what you think of me?" But I didn't. The moment passed. It passed as it had passed so many hundreds of times before, so many thousands of times before.

If every statement is incomplete and every expression is situated upon a silent tacit comprehension, then it must be that things are said and are thought by a Speech and by a Thought which we do not have but which has us.

Her life is a wrecked boat torn apart for kindling and set ablaze to send a message to the sky from a deserted beach. From a distance the words spell SAVE ME. The closer the sign the clearer the statement. Turns out it says FUCK YOU.

We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

I doubt it with a silent B.

But—what if other women decide they want to do what he did? Just stop being women and become men instead? There will be an epidemic. Everyone will want to be a man." I was very quiet. She had just revealed a lot about how she felt as a Mormon woman.

De que vale ter voz se só quando não falo é que me entendem? De que vale acordar se o que vivo é menos do que o que sonhei?

O silêncio não é a ausência da fala, é o dizer-se tudo sem nenhuma palavra.

Toda a roupa recebe a alma de quem a usa.

Todos nós somos impossíveis tradutores de sonhos. Na verdade, os sonhos falam em nós o que nenhuma palavra sabe dizer.