Quotes About Expression

That grin was so evil I'm sure Paul heard it.

A lad who wears his every thought upon his face is asking for someone to change his opinions.

My rosebush shouts beauty to the world.

Well, I just think that is the problem, you put up with it instead of speaking your mind.

Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.

Thoughts to words, words to paper. A gift we give ourselves, both now and later.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Who said "ladies" don't use words like "fuck" and "cunt," or that one doesn't use them around "ladies"? Maybe not when you're having lunch with a lady, but when a lady's fucking, she's not having lunch.

Oh," she said, putting her hand to her throat -- it was a suprisingly long, slender hand, in contrast to the roundness of her face.

Es terrible que estuviéramos tan asustadas de que nos vieran con libros que tenemos todo el derecho a leer

No sería sincero ni correcto, sería negar… todo lo que sentimos la una por la otra. Ellas son mayores, tal vez tuvieran que hacerlo, pero… Ay, Liza, yo no quiero esconder la… la mejor parte de mi vida, de mí misma.

It's terrible, … for us to have been so scared to be seen with books we have every right to read.

it was true i'd never consciously thought about being gay... even when i was little, i'd often felt as if i didn't quite fit in with most of the people around me... why when i imagined living with someone someday, permanently i mean, that person was always female.

No hablábamos mucho sobre lo que suponía ser homosexuales o no; la mayor parte del tiempo hablábamos sobre nosotras. Entonces lo importante éramos nosotras, no las etiquetas.

So, Josh wore the picture of a man he spoke of with reverence, but who had been dead his whole life. I wanted to know about feeling a passion so strong you needed to wear it for the world to see. -Eliza

del mismo modo que examinarse, escucharse y quejarse forman parte del eterno femenino, no quejarse forma parte del eterno masculino

Merely knowing a word, moreover, doesn't necessarily make you capable of using it.

All sorts of behaviour can be inspired by self-hatred. You can become an artist. Commit suicide. Adopt a new name, a new country, a new language. All of the above.

Style, someone once said, is a marriage of love between an individual and his or her language.

Le roman est le genre humain par excellence .

The problem, of course, is that languages are not only languages. They're also worldviews -- and therefore, to some extent, untranslatable ...

En anglais, to make up, ce n'est pas seulement se maquiller, c'est aussi inventer, imaginer. (p.46)

The telephone is your theater, your stage. Your receiver is your curtain. When it goes up, make yourself a star.

Comedian Marty Feldman adds, "The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.