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Expression Quotes
"I am a massive slag!" I think to myself, in a motivational way. "I'm a Lady Sex Adventuress! I'm a Pirate of Privates! I'm a swashfuckler!" ... I think of "Teenage Whore" by Courtney Love as my personal anthem."
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"Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world."
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"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."
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"Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare."
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"Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression."
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"In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all."
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"America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?"
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"Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic."
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"I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him."
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"My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am."
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"Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning."
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"As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor."
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"I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I'm actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that's really embarrassing."
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"Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away."
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"We are only writing the history of our time."
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"Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. All cheer for Shakespearean insults."
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"A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known."
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"To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken."
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"The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it."
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"How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression."
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"As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't."
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"What a gulf between impression and expression! That's our ironic fate-to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse-touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash."
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"In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry."
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"It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression."
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"Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences."
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"In a man's letters his soul lies naked."
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"Words are not brains, you know."
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"There's no self-expression or joy in these joints-- no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking your clothes off. Why do many people have a gut reaction to strip clubs? Because inside them, no one is having fun."
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"A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun."
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"Don't be afraid to talk because in the long run, you will be afraid that you were too silent."
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"Poise: a graceful and elegant bearing in person; a composure of dignity and manner.Postures: the position of a person's body when standing, sitting, or walking; carriage, bearing, and stance.Gestures: moving parts of your body to express an idea, opinion, emotion, or meaning."Poise confirms purpose. Postures portray personality. Gestures express emotions. Your poise, postures, and gestures make a powerful statement about who you are and how you feel about yourself. This dynamic trio speaks volumes about you."
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"I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else."
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"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
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"There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam."
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"Even in silence a heart can scream."
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"She was not one for emptying her face of expression."
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"There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords."
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"Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively."
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"How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?"
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"Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?"
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"I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world."
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"When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry."
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"The truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication."
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"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless."
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"Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it."
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