Quotes About Expression

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

When they tote up our contribution," Luke once said, "all that can be claimed for us is that we took 'fuck' out of the oral tradition and wrote it plain.

Why do we have to do this, Sam?" Sam threw his arms up in the air, gesturing wildly, shouting, "Because I love you, you crazy woman.

I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.

We have freedom of the press; I think it's guaranteed in the Constitution or something."   The

In the beginning, poetry rather than prose was the dominant form, for poetry was the normal expression of the literary impulse before writing came to confuse culture. Long after the book appeared, literature was heard rather than read.

My friend Zelda once said that tears are how we give love a wash, so it doesn't go mouldy.

My friend Zelda once said that tears are how we give love a wash, so it doesn't go mouldy.

Of course it must be noted that no decimal expression, no matter how many decimal places are used, will ever exactly equal an irrational number; a decimal is a fraction, and an irrational, we saw, cannot equal a fraction.

Everything I say is actual, not factual

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Art is a crucial, dangerous operation we perform on ourselves. Unless we take a chance, we die in art.

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

Music's tragedy is that it begins with perfection.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Spread love everywhere you go First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.

Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.

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