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Quotes About Expression

If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity.
~ Andy Samberg
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
~ C.S. Lewis
My passion is to tell stories that reflect humanity.
~ Pam Grier
Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet again.
~ Frank Warren
Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.
~ Pope John Paul II
Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.
~ Karl Kraus
When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity
~ Pharrell Williams
And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that's crucial. So want to be an artist and a servant, a humanitarian, and I want to play goofy weirdoes.
~ Rainn Wilson
The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.
~ John Updike
Artists have the responsibility to serve humanity give people hope.
~ Dalai Lama
Creativity has got to start with humanity.
~ Marilyn Monroe
There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.
~ Stephen King
I don't care how good you are at it, but if you don't enjoy playing drums, you aren't in touch with a facet of your humanity. Really.
~ RJD2
Art should be on the side of humanity.
~ Chinua Achebe
There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
~ Tori Amos
I keep things pretty loose. I'm always attracted to the artists that have a, like a really loose, kind of, human style, you know, you can see, you can tell there's, there's a humanity in there.
~ Noah Van Sciver
We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.
~ Grimes
Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious.
~ Katherine Paterson
I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.
~ Kyra Sedgwick
I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.
~ Noomi Rapace
Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.
~ Cynthia Ozick