Quotes About Self-expression

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Some people are permanently broken. Like Humpty Dumpty, no one can put you back together again. ...But I'm not broken. I'm exactly the way I want to be.

I recently moved to Los Angeles and found out there's an entire city of people who never "fit in!" It's the "land of misfit toys." How great is that? So for those of you out there who are "unique," congratulations on recognizing it, and get comfortable with it, because it's a part of you and one day you'll stumble upon people who totally get you.

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman.

What is a Gallagher Girl?" Liz asked one final time. "She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy. And now we are at the end of our time at school, and the one thing I know for certain is this: a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.

Strapless bras? Well let's just say, I'm the kind of girl who likes things sufficiently strapped.

Ultimately, overcoming personal censorship is about gaining independence--independence from ignorance!~ Adesiji Rabiu

And I start to say, no. Start to ask him to please just take it off and put it away. Start to explain how it holds far too many memories for me. But then I remember what Damen said once about memories - that they're haunting things. And because I refuse to be haunted by mine - I just take a deep breath and smile when I say, "You know, I think it looks really good on you. You should defiantly keep it.

Does it really matter if I choose the bus over a BMW, and generic over Gucci? Because the car, the wardrobe, the zip code-those are just nouns, things that are fun to have around, sure, but in the end, they have nothing to do with the real me. Nothing to do with who I really am.

No se vestía para atraer miradas de aprobación de su marido ni de ninguna multitud, sino para conformarse a un propio ideal secreto. Una fantasía tomada de una novela decimonómica, una imagen tanto intemporal como perenne. Una heroína romántica de su propia creación.

Yeah, the strange thing is, Ms. Topper, I never liked writing before. But now I notice I feel a lot better after I do it.

If there's a place you should be able to put yourself first, it's in your own sexual fantasies.

I can see where this is going, too. Of course, I can, because I am Alex as well. But I want to dress up in gorgeous clothes and strut up and down the runway like they do in the magazines, swishing my tail. I want to dress up with Amina and Julia and giggle and be girlfriends, arm in arm. I want to be beautiful. I want other people to think I am beautiful.

Dude. Message understood. But you call me Your Highness again, and I'll kick your ass.

I found out that the question was not 'am I good enough to write?', because of course I am not. The question was, 'am I able to live without writing?'. It is the only question.

Le maquillage est un culte à mystère.

Deje de decir nosotros, tenga la valentía de decir yo.

When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I think of my speech impediment not as a weakness or a disability, but as one of my greatest strengths.

I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.

I was constantly being told I shouldn't talk so much about how I was feeling. They seemed to think I was giving too much away to my competitors. Showing signs of weakness. But I've always thought that was rubbish.

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.

Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty; it's a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.

In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years.

I'm not changing the way I dress: I refuse to wear a suit.