Quotes About Expression

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?

The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was impossible to express it as a figure. So someone had to overcome this reasonable assumption, someone had to figure out how to express nothing as a number. This unknown man from India made nonexistence exist.

When the surface of your soul begins to stir, I imagine you want to capture the sensation in writing." - Yoko Ogawa

Allí donde se queman los libros, se acaba quemando también persona

I worried that if she were forced to say more, she might shrink farther away and disappear altogether.

The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was impossible to express it as a figure. So someone had to overcome this reasonable assumption, someone has to figure out how to express nothing as a number. This unknown man from India made nonexistence exist. Extraordinary, don't you think?

You can't write with your head. I want you to write with your hand," he said. It was rare for him to make a pronouncement like this, so I found myself simply nodding in silence. Then I stretched my hand toward him, fingers extended. "That's right. That's where the story should come from," he said, but he looked away, as though he had seen into the most vulnerable part of my body.

Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions. Mathematics, however, can illuminate them, can give them expression – in fact, nothing can prevent it from doing so.

Ad what will happen if words disappear? I whispered to myself, afraid that if I said it too loudly, it might come true

Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions. Mathematics, however, can illuminate them, can give them expression—in fact, nothing can prevent it from doing so.

You can't write with your head. I want you to write with your hand

And what will happen if words disappear?

And what will happen if words disappear? I whispered to myself, afraid that if I said it too loudly, it might come true.

And what will happen if words disappear?" I

His face was so covered in wrinkles that it was impossible to tell from his expression whether he was laughing or crying. I pressed my hand against his back.

When you lost your voice, you lost the ability to make sense of yourself.

Now he longer felt any need to use taste as the bricks and mortar for a structure called "individuality

Now he no longer felt any need to use taste as the bricks and mortar for a structure called "individuality.

This visit by these two men made my pen go limp.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future. Some have expressed the very opposite feeling--the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?