Quotes About Expression

Everyday objects shriek aloud.

That's because your words convey your message, but your actions convey the feelings and emotions behind it.

Many of us learned to repress our creativity. We were told it was secondary to more important skills. The good news is that many of us have untapped gifts just wating to be expressed. You owe it to yourself to uncover and express your gifts

We all struggle. It's just that some of us struggle out loud and some of us don't

You are here to be fully alive. Your expression is needed. Don't hold back

It could be that the sort of sentence one wants right here is the kind that runs, and laughs, and slides, and stops right on a dime.

Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers that write at all.

But when the birthday song is imminent, the group is small. There is the possibility that everyone will mouthe.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

It is not my intention to make anything comprehensible. I am of the opinion that there are sufficient paintings which one understands after a shorter or longer delay, and that therefore some incomprehensible painting would now be welcome. I am at pains to deliver such, as far as possible.

No decent art ever came out of self-pity.

It is a terrible thing To be so open: it is as if my heart Put on a face and walked into the world. —SYLVIA PLATH, "A POEM FOR THREE VOICES

The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber necklace. This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.

Excuse me for just a sec, I've got eczema around my nubbins.

If only traveling were about showing off your language skills, if only it did not also demand a certain commitment of body communication, of outright singing or dancing--I think I would be absolutely global by now.

Personal measurements provide an opportunity to be wildly creative. If you're doing a spell for mental clarity, find a way to incorporate your head measurement. If your spellwork is aimed at expressing your feelings more clearly, try incorporating the distance from your heart to your mouth. Talismans, charms, garments, and tools: When we personalize these items, we imbue them with powerful ties to our own imaginations, associations, bodies, and beliefs.

Movies and television may be influencing writers to write more visually, using immediate scenes with specific points of view to put their stories across. But fiction can always accomplish something that visual media will never be able to match. ... One of the great gifts of literature is that it allows for the expression of unexpressed thoughts: interior monologue.

You don't want to sound as though you used a Sharper Image catalogue for a thesaurus.

We are all sculptors and painters. Our material is our own flesh, blood and bones. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Even a first-year law student knows that you can't curtail the right of one person to speak because other people get disorderly.

Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.

That was a screaming meemie

The Linda Ronstadt pitch: Blue Bayou (blew by you)

More people saying what they believe would be a great improvement. Because I often do I am unfit for common intercourse.-Nero Wolfe in "Blood Will Tell