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Expression Quotes
"For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope."
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"Wear your heart upon your sleeves and your soul upon your smiles."
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"And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking."
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"They compose poems to their knives."
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"The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, whether we intend to or not, our response to the world around us."
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"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud."
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"Never explain yourself to people, just make them feel you."
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"The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth."
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"If words are the truth, what is living for?"
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"Stars don't need words to be heard, their beauty speaks for them."
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"Every word that I utter matters and this makes me speechless."
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"I wasn't born to fetch, or sit, or accept a beating. I'm here to be me, to write, and know my purpose."
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"Art is a human activity consisting in this that one man consciously by means of external signs hands on to others feelings he has worked through and other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them."
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"Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close attention. He is telling us the story of the free spirit that is doing everything it can to escape from within him. That same kind of spirit is inside me, inside you. There--you can hear it, I'm sure: the hot breath, the shivering heart. (Thailand)"
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"It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many."
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"Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise."
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"The word in your mouth is anarchy."
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"Some words bring warmthjust bybeing next to each other."
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"Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person...."
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"I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."
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"You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search."
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"Math is the language of the head, music is the language of the heart. Of the two, it is music that speaks the most truth."
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"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see."
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"As usual, I shall tell my story badly; and you, as usual, will think me extravagant."
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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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"I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives."
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"Be aware, putting on a poker face can backfire during your first impressions because it can make people uncomfortable and make you more difficult to read and harder to get to know."
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"Dance to the music of your soul."
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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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"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'm fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice high."
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
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"Decorate your life and home to represent the vivid hues of your radiant soul. Share your brilliance."
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"More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray."
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"I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book."
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"Tears are words that need to be written."
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"When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke."
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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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"Look at the single words below; wear these emotions on your face for just a moment. Try them on for size and note how they make you feel:Happiness. Fear. Anger. Sadness. Contempt. Surprise. Disgust.These are the basic human emotions which communicate with clear understanding across cultures, languages, and countries. In other words, a smile naturally conveys happiness and a frown naturally conveys sadness, no matter where you may be using your passport."
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"Smiling Bloopers Insincere smiling can backfire! (Different from a shy smile that just beckons a friendly "hello.") Transitioning from a smile to a straight face, too quickly, may give others the impression that you are fake or do not like them. Going overboard and smiling all the time, especially when it is inappropriate, will make you appear insincere. If your mouth smiles, but your eyes don't, there is a disconnect that can make you appear less authentic and trustworthy."
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"Your voice could go to where your feet could not go."
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"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
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"Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you."
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"Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken."
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"ASK YOURSELF: Are your facial expressions in alignment with your true personality? Are they working on your behalf to project the best impression possible?"
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"My speak a language my heart knows how to respond to."
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"Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance."
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"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!"
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