Quotes about Expression

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

This was such bad writing that it was good.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

How can you talk if you don't say anything? I said. You talk without words. We are always talking without words. Well, what good are words, then? Not very good, most of the time. Most of the time they're only good to keep back what you really want to say, or something you don't want known.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

Faith is not about a building or a lifestyle. You can minister in many ways besides attending services or being a preacher. And I think that that's what I feel most thankful for--that I have the opportunity to minister now, in my own way.

I think there is a predisposition among Christians that Hollywood is anti-Jesus or anti-Christianity. I was warned I'd have to fight to maintain the freedom to express my beliefs. It's an unfair stereotype, and so far that's been the farthest from the truth. While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.