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...

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than...

Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.

It was a heartfelt expression from the speaker that we have to work in a unified fashion, or the whole thing starts to deteriorate,

Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave...

My dear, if heaven is truly a place, then it is situated in your heart, that special place, that was reserved for me.

Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls. These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors expressed noiselessly on parchment. Poetry is the unheard cry of a budding flower,...

It is love’s nature to be expressed.

Those who express even a little of themselves never become old-fashioned.

When a performance isn’t working, it’s usually because the actor is trying to do something and they’re not able to express their idea very well. It’s a muddled expression.

Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you’re more intelligent.

There have been times I’ve felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.

Wrestling’s a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.

Time’s a goon right? Isn’t that the expression?

I’m bad when it comes to giving advice and best at expressing myself.

People do not change, only expression and perception changes.

I’ve never thought it strange to do highly contrasting things. I always thought it was all part and parcel of theatrical expression. At school, I loved doing revues, I was in a rock ‘n’ roll...

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn’t stop anyone.

The more time I spent at the Finches’, the more I realized what a waste of my life this school crap was. It was nothing but a holding tank for kids without bigger plans or...

I had a dream about you. I smiled and you waved, and it’s unfortunate that neither one of these gestures was directed at each other. The person I was smiling at was the same person...

Dining at the rare reasonTo get between the circumstanceAnd start milking the Caesars For what enters the earsAnd is for their eyes to air and advise.

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection...

YOLO means You Only Live Once, so instead of using it as an expression to do whatever you want, use it as an expression to live life right, because you only get one chance at...

Until I have learned how to express myself as a human, I will not consider speaking as a god.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.”(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers)

I have this rage that I can’t explain. It’s sad.

It is was we love the most, how much we love, and how comfortable we are expressing it that determines where we end up in life and how happy we will be.

Confront all the angry thoughts, feelings, the jealousies and condemnations, to find their cause, seek the root of such feelings and then operate on that. Need of security and reassurance can cause criminal acts.

You can’t defame someone, or just walk naked on the streets because freedom of expression has limits.

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men’s hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression ‘structureless germs’.

In Italian there is an expression: We don’t sleep on the fame.

It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.

Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken...

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations – the gods write their signature in our entrails

May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of to turn up the bowels of the earth?

{Miller, who was president of American Federation of Musicians, had this to say about Robert Ingersoll at his funeral}On behalf of 15,000 professional musicians, comprising the American Federation of Musicians, permit me to extend to...

Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.

In a world where things are moving so fast, don’t get lost in the midst of it all. Figure out what’s more important to you and proceed with confidence. I know it gets a bit...

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.

Son of Krypton!

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it’s not necessary to be radical all the time.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Things are not all so comprehensible and utterable as people would mostly have us believe; most events are unutterable, consummating themselves in a sphere where word has never trod, and more unutterable than them all...

I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is important to them as scientists; the best research is wasted...

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.