Quotes about Expression
I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules
— Samuel Johnson
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
— Samuel Johnson
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
— Samuel Johnson
Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.
— Samuel Johnson
Affection is the lively representment of any passion whatsoever, as if the figures stood not upon a cloth or board, but as if they were acting upon a stage.Wotton'sArchitecture.
— Samuel Johnson
When People talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists: but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
— John Adams
Her pure, and eloquent bloodSpoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,That one might almost say, her body thought.
— John Donne
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
— John Donne
Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
— John Donne
If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expresst But negatives, my love is so. To All, which all love, I say no. Negative Love
— John Donne
There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.
— Denzel Washington
The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.
— Kevin Hart