Quotes About Expression

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

A person can change the way he talks, but not the way he sneezes. A person can turn single-fold eyelids into double folds, but the greatest plastic surgeon alive cannot change the look in a man's eyes.

No person writes to win awards.

I portatori bravi tenevano le mani sui fianchi e si muovevano insieme, facendo oscillare la portantina al ritmo della bella e triste melodia suonata dai musici, per far capire che dietro ogni felicità si cela sempre una sofferenza.

Se qualcuno piange vuol dire che è ancora vivo. Piangete pure, piccoli miei.

Tu sei un grande amico di Mo Yan e potresti suggerirgli questo espediente letterario: se, in un punto della trama, non si possiede una perfetta padronanza dei personaggi o un'adeguata tecnica espressiva, basta spingere tutti nell'acqua. In quel mondo il silenzio è più eloquente delle parole, è un elemento incolore più vivido dei colori stessi: per un momento lui dovrebbe far finta che l'azione si stia svolgendo sul fondo dell'acqua

Io mi immersi di colpo lasciandomi sopra la testa e dietro le spalle ogni suono, come farebbe un grande scrittore.

Club kids were generally urban and gay, ravers were generally suburban and straight, and goths lived in basements and spiderwebs. The ravers and club kids shared a love for techno and ecstasy, while the goths loved electronic music and old churches. So the Limelight became home for all three tribes.

Je gardais le silence ou grognais n'importe quoi ; – les mots ne me sortaient plus. Forcément, mon gosier n'était plus apte à former des sons mais exclusivement des pierres. Elles me harcelaient toutes cependant, comme elles harcelaient les autres hommes, ne sachant pas à quoi elles s'exposaient : j'étais prêt à vomir un torrent de pierres. »

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

The Voice of silence is louder than any Noise.

True Love never needs the Expression of Words, It Speaks the Language Blessed by God and when it speaks, Only Miracles Happen. "

That any gentleman should always keep In stern control this writing itch we're seized with; That he must hold in check the great impatience We feel to give the world these idle pastimes; For, through this eagerness to show our works, 'Tis likely we shall cut a foolish figure.

Quand on sait entendre, on parle toujours bien.

La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut.

All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked."

She said in an interview with Polly Devlin in 1983 that the pseudonym was essential because, 'for a woman to read a book, let alone write one, was viewed with alarm; I would have been banned from every respectable house.