Quotes About Expression

Di a los ojos que su música concierten con la voz; porque es forzoso que desdiga y que disuene tan destemplado instrumento, que ajustar y medir quiere la falsedad de quien dice,

hay cosas que cuesta más el decirlas que el pasarlas.

Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time

I went into the house. I put on Jimi Hendrix's 'Red House' at full volume, filled the glass to the brim with rum, without ice, and went back to the terrace. To gaze at the night and the dark sea and the night.

El trabajo de un escritor consiste en vivir intensamente en la calle para después encerrarse solo, en un cuarto, y jugar, soñar, pensar, reflexionar, y finalmente, escribir sobre toda esa gente que ha conocido en la calle. Aunque los escritores saben que no es conveniente reconocer este proceso. Así evitan problemas y reclamaciones posteriores. Yo

Somos del mismo gremio. -Los dos somos artistas, papi. Cuando bailaba era igual. Yo con mis bailes eróticos. Era la estrella del Palermo. Nadie sabía si era verdad o mentira. Ni yo misma sabía si lo que bailaba era erotismo real o fingía el erotismo. -Igual que yo con mis novelas. Ni yo mismo sé lo que es cierto y lo que es mentira. -Al final todo es verdad. -Uhmm. -Eres una puta, Pedro. Eres tan puta como yo. Vendes una mentira y finges que es verdad.

Y nos arrancamos del Municipal como chicas reacias a la cultura de salón. Igual fue bonito conocer estas elegancias, dije tomando a la Gladucha del brazo. Pero nosotras somos más folclóricas, Pedrín. Y rockeras, agregué con una mirada rebelde. Y cumbiancheras, acentuó mi reina con su risa de cascabel que me sigue sonando en el ayer, tan fresca y libertaria como una cascada de pájaros.

Si uno diluye un buen poema en un litro de agua consigue un cuento regular. Si uno diluye ese cuento en diez litros de agua, consigue una novela innecesaria.

No soy peronista, pero a veces por dentro, con cara de póquer, uno grita Viva Perón.)

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.

Work, but work with a flare, a love of the art so to speak, of doing what I love.

She seemed to like best my daughter, Pegeen's, paintings, thought when I made the observation that the people in Pegeen's paintings, strangely enough, never seem to be engaged in any conversation with each other, all going their own ways, Mrs. Luce replied, 'Maybe they have nothing to say.

[A]ll great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

big things are best said, are almost always said, in small words.

it is harder to decide what you want to say than it is to figure out how to say it.

You must be able to say the sentences you write. And so they cannot be long and serpentine things that curl around clauses, caress subclauses, encompass extended metaphor, stop briefly for a whimsical digression and culminate, ultimately, in a long and rhythmic peroration that signals to your audience that you would not take it unkindly if they, at just about this moment, would interrupt you with vigorous and sustained applause.

When you are thinking about what you want to say, it is often helpful to define it down, in your own mind, to a sentence or two.

They weren't trying to self-consciously fashion a phrase that would grab the listener. They were simply trying to capture in words the essence of the thought they wished to communicate.

The words and phrases you use must not only be "hearable" by the audience, they must be

A great speech is literature.

How could he try to get Sandi to reveal her true colors when she was a rainbow?

Laughter through tears: it's the Southern way.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.