Quotes about Expression

Being a writer is all about having something to say. And it'd better be interesting. If you don't have anything interesting to say, don't become a writer. Become something useful. Like a doctor.

When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with science.

I would expect a significant development and elaboration of language in only a few generations if all the chimps unable to communicate were to die or fail to reproduce. Basic English corresponds to about 1,000 words. Chimpanzees are already accomplished in vocabularies exceeding 10 percent of that number.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time — proof that humans can work magic.

The people who wrote down the Bible and the people who wrote down the Mahayana sutras were artists. They used images to express their insights.

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

Seriously, my heart is to just go forward as far as I can, making music that I love and seeing where the journey takes me.

The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.

Kissing on screen isn't easy.

It can be very lonely knowing that you have things to say but you daren't say them. Knowing that you could contribute to something but you don't dare quite do it.

I have the words 'love' and 'life' on my knuckles, and I would half like those removed.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.