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Expression Quotes
"Words make known. But we live in the unknown."
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"That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy. We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. We were tinpan alleycats, but the gift of music had been withheld. We could not sing along, though we always knew the words. Still, defiantly, we roared our tuneless roars, we fell off the high notes and were trampled by the low ones. And if bitter ices were the consequence, well, there were worse fates in the world than that."
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"You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy."
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"It is better for a soul to write the wonders of time while there is still breath."
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"Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing."
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"Smiling and Expressions of Emotion. A genuine smile is inviting, contagious, and encouraging. People do read a book by its cover and your expressions provide a glimpse for what they'll find inside."
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"Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it."
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"As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't."
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"If there is wisdom in your mind, prove it; joy in your heart, share it; love in your soul, show it; good in your life, impart it."
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"I write to express my love for the humanity."
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"I'm fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice high."
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"His words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness."
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"You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a vagina, you get letters from people saying they'll never read you again. What the hell? Penises entering vaginas bring a lot more joy into the world than axes entering skulls."
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"It's better not to hold your feelings inside too much and express them to a dear one freely, than to pay thousands of dollars to a psychiatrist for the same outburst of emotions later. Emotions are a bonding mechanism for humans. So, use 'em, abuse 'em and utilize 'em."
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"When your speaking style is clear, confident, and concise, your listeners will perceive you as such."
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"Unleash your mighty words, and with them, recreate a new and more beautiful world for all."
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"Oh... I just leave it......Words have as much weight as trying to jump from the 123333333334 Floor without a parachute and to be alive."
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"It's not really outstanding when you're standing outOutcry is the only outburst,if you can't shout."
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"I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores."
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"The main thing about ghosts " most of them have lost their voices. In Asphodel, millions of them wander around aimlessly, trying to remember who they were. You know why they end up like that? Because in life they never took a stand one way or another. They never spoke out, so they were never heard. Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it,' Nico said with a shrug, 'you're halfway to Asphodel already.' He hated when his own advice applied to himself."
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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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"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words."
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"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."
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"Even in silence a heart can scream."
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"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
"Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience."
"Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you."
"ASK YOURSELF: Are your facial expressions in alignment with your true personality? Are they working on your behalf to project the best impression possible?"
"Something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring what is within out!"
"My speak a language my heart knows how to respond to."
"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."
"When i speak to youi speak as thoughi am offering a rosein your hand."
"Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance."
"What starts in the heart doesn't stay in the heart, it either turn into action or words."
"When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough."
"Don't be afraid to talk because in the long run, you will be afraid that you were too silent."
"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!"
"Better thinking out loud than suffocating from frustration. ['The upper lip must never tremble']"
"I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience."
"He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation."
"It's amazing, the increase in grammatical errors in proportion to the level of hatred in the content of hate mail."
"Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder."
"My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them "€" by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents."
"Singing is my pleasure, but not in church, for the parson said the gargoyles must remain on the outside, not seek room in the choir stalls. So I sing inside the mountain of my flesh, and my voice is as slender as a reed and my voice has no lard in it. When I sing the dogs sit quiet and people who pass in the night stop their jabbering and discontent and think of other times, when they were happy. And I sing of other times, when I was happy, though I know that these are figments of my mind and nowhere I have been. But does it matter if the place cannot be mapped as long as I can still describe it?"
"There is this certain rawness of soul that puts the polished ones on edge. Some of us just step out and the sunlight illuminates our bones, nerves, veins, cells! And that's just it, we're just like that! Then the others are tinted, polished, honed and well-contemplated; when they see you walk in and they can see all of your bones, even the tiniest ones, illuminated and outlined by the sunlight, it makes them feel shaded-in, it makes them feel hidden, it makes them turn their faces away. The way you bleed yourself all over the lines just makes it too uncomfortable for them, I guess."
"You can only convey that which you're not, for what you're you only EXPERIENCE!"
"The world is so big and words are so small!"
"Remember:all the thoughts you have of yourself and others are written on your face. Make them kind."
"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master."
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