Quotes about Expression
I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he'll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up.
— Melissa McCarthy
Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
— Herman Melville
Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.
— Ava DuVernay
Basically, I don't like to tweet stuff about my life. I only like to tweet jokes.
— Bo Burnham
The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.
— Roseanne Barr
When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.
— James Wolk
I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky. If you seriously want to know, listen to the music.
— Jennifer Lopez
For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.
— Julian Casablancas
Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.
— Kevin Hart
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.
— Max Lucado
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
— Oscar Wilde