Expressionism Literary Quotes & Sayings

Of course one's sense of identification with the nation is inflected by all kinds of particulars, including one's class, race, gender, and sexual identification. ... But [regarding] national character ... , aside from references to a national aesthetic - literary, musical, and choreographic, there are two poles I reference: minimalist and maximalist. I love them both - the cryptic poems of Emily Dickinson folded up in tiny packets and hidden away in a box, the sparse, understated choreographies of Merce; but also the "trashy, profane and obscene" poems of Whitman and Ginsberg, [and] Martha Graham's expressionism. I am, myself, a minimalist. But I love distortion guitar and the wild exhibitionism of so many American artists. Also, these divisions are false. Emily Dickinson, in fact, can be as trashy and obscene as the best of them! Anyway, Dickinson and Whitman are at the heart of this narrative. They are the Dancing Queen and the Guitar Hero. — Barbara Browning

Put one foot forward and the other will get you to where you are going~!" Bag Lady, Swan Song — Robert McCammon

My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess. — Joshua Waitzkin

It occurs to us that so-called "freedom fries" kill many more Americans than terrorists ever do. — Terry Mosher

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Knowledge seems like magic to the ignorant. — Amish Tripathi

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean. — Elin Hilderbrand

A man should believe in God through faith, not because of miracles. — Nachman Of Breslov

When one cannot be sure that there are many days left, each single day becomes as important as a year, and one does not waste an hour in wishing that that hour were longer, but simply fills it, like a smaller cup, as high as it will go without spilling over. — Natalie Kusz

It has been said that sleeping, dreaming, and meditating, or developing awareness, are the only states in which we do not sow further seeds of karma. — Chogyam Trungpa

I am Prince Horace!"
"And I'm the Grand Turnip of China!" cutwater snickered.
"Dim-witted villains!" shouted the Prince. "I command you to turn us loose. — Sid Fleischman

Cathedral terminology was like stage directions - totally counterintuitive. — Dan Brown

A leader is a reader. — John C. Maxwell

By losing my external things, I found myself. I found something very powerful, very permanent, that I could have with me all the time. — Isha Judd