Quotes about Expression
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.
— James Madison
Don't do anything that isn't play
— Joseph Campbell
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart.
— Barack Obama
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
— Seth Godin
If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.
— Thomas Jefferson
Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.
— Seth Godin
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
— Joseph Heller
As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
— Philip Yancey
Somehow, that "faith" was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express a love for God.
— Philip Yancey