Quotes About Self-expression

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

I was the shiest person you could think of. I didn't really speak. I was an only child, so most of my life I spent in my bedroom playing with toys by myself, speaking through them.

My sisters and my mum taught me how to be a woman: the way they carry themselves, the way they talk to people, the way they know how to put their foot down. They're not having any nonsense from no one. I can see traces of that in me.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

Sometimes the world will tell you that you do what you do for a different reason than your reason. And if you let them convince you that that's your reason, it will become your reason, and you will lose track of yourself.

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

There are days when I feel tom-boyish, so I would wear track pants and chunky sneakers. There are days when I feel a little bit more feminine or androgynous. Some days I want to look chic.

I can't even walk out the door without, even to go to the race track, without my MAC lip gloss.

I would never go out in track bottoms and a baggy T-shirt.

I don't think I have a great voice, but I started singing on my tracks and they did a lot better. So I thought, 'let's give this a go then!'

My laugh is filthy. I'd change it if I could, but it's become a trademark.

I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark, and I've got to keep it this way.

The trademark Joseph Abboud style is the man first and the clothes second. The guy's the star. Everything else is a supporting actor.

I like to be comfortable but I also like to look put together all the time.

I know a lot of people think of me and they like, oh that girl is really sexy, that girl is really put together, she would never do something as unladylike as a beet eating competition.

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here.

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

I climb the door instead of a treeJust to crawl with myself walking freeWhat if I'm a lizard beneath my skinChanging my colours of the human I've been