Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.
Our thoughts are not roadblocks to our meditation, they are the divine expression of the universe and the building blocks of infinite possibilities available to us in every moment.
Love cannot come from where love is not. We cannot express love from within us for another if there is no love for ourselves within us.
You don't have to be a poet to express you feelings to her, just say whats in your mind and she will relate.
Irreverence towards women means denouncing your own existence. Respecting women is a way of expressing gratitude towards the universal source of creativity.
I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.
You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.
By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'
Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.
In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.
I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need.
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
