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Expression Quotes


"Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it."


"It's not really outstanding when you're standing outOutcry is the only outburst,if you can't shout."


"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."


"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."


"Write your sacred story."


"I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more."


"It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things."


"Wear your heart on your sleeve. Write about what you think and feel. And share it with your friends."


"Wear red and just be silent, don't even whisper by yourself; you will see that you will be heard easily because red always speaks on behalf of you! By wearing red, you give your tongue and voice to red colour!"


"There is nothing better than expressions in words."


"Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces."


"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."


"If you're to explain your works, then surely you have chosen wrong audience!"


"So, show the world, make it seeYou are you, and I am me."


"Don't criticize me because of what I write, because for all you know, I could be right!"


"He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle - that should be his tone."


"Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal."


"The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real."


"Words have the power to open up newer realities, rarefy tour performance, inspire fresh possibilities and free humanity."


"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."


"If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message."


"My friend Julie was cooking dinner in her kitchen one night. Her expression was blank as she stood alone working by herself. Her daughter walked in and gasped, "Mom! What's wrong? She said "Nothing. I'm fine. In response, her daughter added, "Then tell your face! You scared me! Emotional expressions can easily be misinterpreted when we are not aware of what people are seeing. Being deep in thought can look that way."


"This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me."


"He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart."


"It is better for a soul to write the wonders of time while there is still breath."


"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."


"I write to express my love for the humanity."



"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."


"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."


"When your speaking style is clear, confident, and concise, your listeners will perceive you as such."


"Writing is exposing yourself to strangers."


"You heard me cry long before I knew my voice."


"I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet."


"Unleash your mighty words, and with them, recreate a new and more beautiful world for all."


"Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to explain this God of ours or articulate our experience of Him, we will have brutally destroyed the very things we are attempting to explain. And if I should do that, no words can describe how badly I wish I had no words."


"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."


"I can't force your lips to smile, but I can show them how easily mine do."


"I want to share in endless ways, My expression of love for you, I'm no longer the beast of burden, Twas lifted when I fell for you."


"That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'?"


"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."


"What starts in the heart doesn't stay in the heart, it either turn into action or words."


"When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart."


"Colour me with you're intentions."



"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."
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