Express Yourself Quotes - Page 12

• everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

  Brenda Ueland

  Communication, Writing, Garden

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• Style is a display of character. It's also a great way to express yourself and the ladies like it.

  Trey Songz

  Character, Style, Way

  "Interview: Trey Songz Talks Complex Fashion Shoot and Musical Influences". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. April 17, 2010.

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• No matter what class you're from - uptown or downtown - when you're in the dancehall everyone's equal, and it's how you choose to express yourself that makes you stand out.

  Kreesha Turner

  Class, Uptown, Downtown

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• [Dancing] was just a nice way of expressing myself, listening to music, and being able to move around and be free, but also really learning something. It was just a nice balance of training and expressing yourself at the same time.

  Jillian Hervey

  Nice, Moving, Dancing

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I am just a simple guy and I like when people enjoy themselves. I always say: you can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself but please don't hurt each other. I really don't know, to be honest with you. I'm very impressed with everything that has happened.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Hurt, Simple, Laughing

  "The Room. Worst movie ever made?". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. April 18, 2011.

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• Even if you're frustrated, how do you express yourself? There's no subculture like back in the day.

  M.I.A.

  Frustrated, Back In The Day, Subculture

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Whether it's films or painting or music or writing a book, the greatest experience is being able to express yourself and what you've gone through, trying to figure out a way to make it into something that's artistic that people can connect with.

  Rob Reiner

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're afraid to express yourself.

  Tim Wu

  People, Too Much, Boring

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.

  Sarah Silverman

  Fun, Crazy, Comedian

  "Comedian Sarah Silverman". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.mrt.com. March 27, 2011.

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• All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light. There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite possibilities for the use of light with shadows and colors. The decisions you make about composition, movement and the countless combinations of these and other variables is what makes it an art.

  Vittorio Storaro

  Art, Decisions You Make, Light

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• Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.

  Aristotle

  Baby, Mean, Way

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  Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Children, Parenting, Too Much

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard: Olympians”

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• I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

  Bob Ross

  Exercise, Thinking, Imagination

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• Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Writing, Opportunity

  Italo Calvino (1976). “The Path to the Nest of Spiders”

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

  George Harrison

  Faith, Waiting

  "Beatle George Harrison dies", www.cnn.com. December 1, 2001.

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• You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

  Kevin Costner

  Live Life, Granted, Daisies

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• Our aspirations are our possibilities.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dream, Soulmate, Wish

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• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 12, 1959.

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• Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Rocks, Brave

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• Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.

  Judy Blume

  Inspirational Life, Believe, Greatness

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• Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Humility, Loss, Pride

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• Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

  John Lennon

  Life, Work, Insecurity

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• A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

  Barbra Streisand

  Trust, Interesting, Over You

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