Quotes about Expression
My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.
— Anonymous
Having gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not deliver it.
— Thomas Monson
Never a day without a line.
— Anonymous
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
— Marilyn Monroe
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
— Mark Twain
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
— Leo Buscaglia
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
— Anne Frank
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.
— Brian Tracy
Her somewhat overly round head was wedged deep within her shoulders on a short body; it sat right upon it, as though there had never been such a thing as a neck, what a superfluous contraption.
— Elias Canetti
If anyone was ever cognizant of the need and function of 'litanies', it was Kafka.
— Elias Canetti
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?
— Elie Wiesel
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
— Elie Wiesel