Quotes About Expression

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing personal opinion. —PROVERBS 18:2

Standard English usage is to use the male pronoun when talking about someone whose gender is not known," Gwendolyn said. "When you avoid pronouns altogether, you really mean 'she.

Drawings, as it has so often been said, are the most intimate expressions of an artist. They can reveal the very act of creation, a first idea, the first spontaneous stroke. They can tell much about an artist himself—for instance, that van Gogh in the south of France remembered an etching by Rembrandt, or that Picasso reinterpreted a composition by Millet.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

A writer lives at best, in a state of astonishment.

When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Women's weapon, water-drops

I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

How soon my sorrow hath destroyed my face