Quotes About Expression

People think they are individuals because they use the word ''I'' so often.

made him more conscious of how little experience he had of saying what he meant.

He had become so caught up in building sentences that he had almost forgotten the barbaric days when thinking was like a splash of color landing on a page.

Once you locked into language, all you could do was shuffle the greasy pack of a few thousand words that millions of people had used before.

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.

It is perhaps the great discomfort of those trying to silence the world to discover that we have voices sealed inside our heads, voices that with each passing day, grow even louder than the clamor of the world outside.

There's no such thing as simple mourning for anyone, really, except that as writers our grief becomes woven into the fabric of our work as well as into our source material.

Posing is death. I think when you make people pose for a photograph, you kill them.

I sometimes feel as though we are all daughters of the same mythical mother. Some of us are super direct, funny. Others are pensive, inquisitive, maudlin, bitter, sarcastic, or a combination of all those things. Yet we have all been orphaned, except by our words, which we eventually turn to in order to make sense of the impossible, the unknowable.

She made sadness beautiful

You thought that if you didn't tell the stories, the sky would fall on your head.

This is why she wanted to make pictures, to have something to leave behind even after she was gone, something that showed what she had observed in a way that no one else had and no one else would after her.

I'm afraid to be shy, distant, and cold. Page 11

One of the less subtle animals in the forest, more uncouth in expression was overheard to remark, "I never heard of anything so ridiculous. If you want a lamb and a tiger to live in the same forest, you don't try to make them communicate. You cage the bloody tiger.

2. As with most of the Bill of Rights, the free speech/press guarantee applies equally to federal and state governments, which includes local governments as well as all branches of each government.

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

they speak whatever's on their mind they do whatever's in their pants the boys i mean are not refined they shake the mountains when they dance

all which isn't singing is merely talking and all talking's talking to oneself (whether that oneself be sought or seeking master or disciple sheep or wolf)

Such was God's original love for man, that He was willing to stoop to any sacrifice to save him; and the gift of a Saviour was the mere expression of that love.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

I can't not put humor in a book.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.