Quotes About Expression

To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I hope I can help guys come out and say, 'All right, dude, I got a manicure...and I liked it.'

The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation.

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.

I'm thinking about doing dusty colors - we definitely are doing as much color as we can. It seems that fashion is back on track with color - I hope. It's been very black for awhile.

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

I like to challenge myself, to see if I can actually write a pop album that people can connect with lyrically. Musically, it's very accessible - or, at least, I hope so.

He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You.