Quotes About Expression

Individuals who depart from the norms—heroes, saints, sages, artists, and poets, as well as madmen and criminals—look for different things in life than most others do.

Friendships allow us to express parts of our beings that we seldom have the opportunity to act out otherwise.

Even when children are taught music, the usual problem often arises: too much emphasis is placed on how they perform, and too little on what they experience.

A more substantive potential use of words to enhance our lives is the lost art of conversation.

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives… most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity… [and] when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

It's fun to come up with an idea, and if nobody wants it, I don't give a damn. It's just fun to come up with something strange and different.

Albert Einstein once wrote that art and science are two of the greatest forms of escape from reality that humans have devised.

it's very clear to me that my ability to think and write at the same time depends on the flow of ink. The thing I enjoy most is the flow of my own ideas and getting them down on paper. I will not write with a ballpoint pen, because it doesn't really flow. That's why I use a fountain pen. And only a fountain pen that really works very well.

Perhaps the most important quality, the one that is most consistently present in all creative individuals, is the ability to enjoy the process of creation for its own sake.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.

Suuri kirjailija on ennen kaikkea kertoja ja kuvaaja. Muista nämä. Suuri kirjailija ei ole koskaan saarnaaja, hosuja tai maailmanparantaja.

Doubtless you would prefer a gayer woman than myself. But I would be gay—

Saat olla kiihkeä ja tulinen, mutta kiihkosi ja tulesi on valauduttava kiinteään, vakuuttavasti taiteelliseen muotoon, muuten se merkitsee vain sohimista. Harkinnan ja rauhan alta kuultava kiihkeys tekee voimakkaamman vaikutuksen kuin holtiton tunteittensa purkaminen

?piewanie by?o niegodne m??czyzny.

Stryj Haakani kazaÅ' babie by? cicho, co powinno by? gÅ'ównÄ… rolÄ… kobiet na tym padole Å'ez, zwÅ'aszcza w obecnoÅ›ci m??czyzn.

Feminists often pretend to be angry and offended in order to win debates or, I should say, prevent debates from ever happening. If you can act angry and offended, especially on a college campus, you can shut down the other side using a speech code.

Maybe the source of my headache is the recent letter, written by a feminist to my dean and my chancellor, who also happens to be feminist, calling for me to be fired. She wrote the letter because I wrote a little paragraph in my nationally published column suggesting feminists are intolerant of free speech. Maybe I shouldn't be allowed to say that.

right, until he found just the right words – not too difficult words, but words with some fire and juice in them.

Faith always comes to the surface and always produces action. It cannot be contained. Thoughts and intents that are held within and not acted upon are not faith, no matter what we like to say. ("My faith is personal" is a favorite. But that is a self-contradicting statement. Faith is always acted out, never kept bottled up within.)

Words simply mean what people think they mean when they say them.

felt that antagonistic indignation that can be pulled off particularly well on the Internet.

Words are the birds that break cover and show your enemy where you're hiding.

Be yourself, until you bleed.