Expression Quotes

"I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down."

"I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something."

"If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it."

"I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out."

"Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone."

G. B. Stern

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

William Arthur Ward

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break."

"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Tears are words that need to be written."

Paulo Coelho

"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength."

Ovid

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."

Francis Bacon

"Where words fail, music speaks."

Hans Christian Andersen

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way – things I had no words for."

Georgia O'Keeffe

"Words are all we have."

Samuel Beckett

"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things."

Matthew Arnold

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

Anaïs Nin

"Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought."

Audre Lorde

"Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is."

"Tears at times have all the weight of speech."

Ovid

“I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out.”

“I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.”

“I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.”

“It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.”

“Culture is a reflection of our moment in our time. And present culture is the way we express how we're feeling about the moment.”