I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.
It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.
Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
To live is to express oneself freely
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.
Express your ideas with the world
The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.
What this game's really about is using each day as a platform to express your greatness.
Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.
No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
That's what I was gonna say. It seems like songwriters should express who they are through what they're doing rather than trying to go legit in that way.
People tell me all the time that my songs help them express things to loved ones that they may not be able to say themselves.
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.
Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express practically all aspects of the spiritual life and our existential situation in the world today as human beings in beautiful Persian poetry.
There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.
We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.
How can I express the darkness?