Quotes about Expression
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
— Virginia Woolf
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.
— Virginia Woolf
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
— Virginia Woolf
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
— Virginia Woolf
Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
— Virginia Woolf
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