Quotes About Expression

Yeah, they told me, just be yourself ... so I did. Maybe that was the problem.

The creation of an authentic work of art, the creation of an authentic life - they are one and the same.

Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.

anotar en un cuaderno de tapa dura mis pensamientos, observaciones o cualquier cosa interesante que alguien dijera o hiciera.

El matemático francés Blaise Pascal describió muy bien este problema en su célebre frase: "Lamento haber escrito esta carta tan larga, pero no tenía tiempo para hacerla más corta".

All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do it.

Actors and directors have written about it, psychologists, philosophers, social scientists, and even biologists have pondered it. What is acting, and how is it done? How does someone become someone else? Can someone become someone else? How much of what an actor does is due to that mysterious quality we call talent?

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

Honesty is a good thing, but it comes in different flavors. Honesty about our feelings is sincerity. Honesty about our intentions is candor. But suppose our feelings or intentions are childish or evil. What then do we gain by expressing or allowing them? The most important form of honesty, especially in a leader, is determining the right course of action and forthrightly pursuing it.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

The manner in which we carry ourselves has an equally significant role to play in expressing body language.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.

It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.

Whatever the culture, there's a tongue in our head. Some use it, some hold it, some bite it. For the French it is a rapier, thrusting in attack; the English, using it defensively, mumble a vague, confusing reply; for Italians and Spaniards it is an instrument of eloquence; Finns and East Asians throw you with constructive silence. Silence is a form of speech, so don't interrupt it!

What is said may be grammatically accurate or erroneous in the extreme, but it will be colored by the person's view of reality, which is itself influenced by the rigidity of his or her own language structure.

Americans using expressions like "You are killing me" or "Say that once again and I'll walk away from this deal" will cause great consternation among their Japanese partners.

Rinzler was struck by the fact that for all its onstage spontaneity, Monroe's music wasn't intuitive. He had consciously created it and could relate exactly where he had gotten each sound, like a painter who knows exactly what colors he has used from his palette.35 Rinzler began to see that this enigmatic man did little that he had not very deliberately decided upon.

never wrote a tune in my life," he said.137 "What do you mean by that?" asked Robins, surprised. "Those tunes are all in the air," Monroe replied. "I just happened to be the first one to pick them out.

I love romantic poetry.

Poems and epitaphs are but stuff, Here lies Bob Barras and that's enough.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.