Quotes About Expression

He growled. "You know quite well that that locution is vile.

I was sorry I had missed it because talk by those two is always worth hearing. You get good examples of how much a man can say in a few words and also of how little he can say in a lot of words.

please?" "Ridiculous," he said curtly

Must I again remind you, Archie, of the reaction you would have got if you had asked Velasquez to explain why Aesop's hand was resting inside his robe instead of hanging by his side? Must I again demonstrate that while it is permissible to request the scientist to lead you back over his footprints, a similar request of the artist is nonsense, since he, like the lark or the eagle, has made none? Do you need to be told again that I am an artist?

What are you, a scientist, or an artist?" Wolfe was frowning at him. "If you please, Mr. Jarrett, no labels. Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

I was yelling at a dame with a frontage that would have made a good bookshelf.

If you like Anglo-Saxon, I belched. If you fancy Latin, I eructed.

Must I again demonstrate that while it is permissible to request the scientist to lead you back over his footprints, a similar request of the artist is nonsense, since he, like the lark or the eagle, has made none?

What's the noise that you are making?" It's something special," I told him,"and takes a lot of practice. Don't try it offhand. It's a derisive chortle

He once said that I ride words bareback.

As I closed the door behind me he started to scorch me with an indignant look for being gone so long, but when he saw my face, which he knows better than I do, he abandoned it. 'Well?' he asked mildly.

When Stout heard the news of Wodehouse's death in 1975, he expressed his admiration thus: "He always used the right words, and nearly always used them well.

You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.

The arguments themselves did not appear to me to be any better simply because they were better expressed; eloquence did not make them true." St. Augustine page 85

los hombres incapaces de escribir son inofensivos; los capaces, no".

Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens--second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

Each song has its own way that it likes to be done, but it can be more than one way. If you tap into it, you can feel it.

you parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage. Every time you talk about what you don't love, you are adding another bar to the cage and you are locking yourself away from all the good.

you. If you parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage.

The emotions are an incredible gift that we have

The words hot, lot, and got were not apart of a ladies vocabulary.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph," I muttered, giving those men a haughty stare.

It was like smiling at a gargoyle.