Quotes About Self-expression

Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.

I would love to go for a bob. I want to do the chop and go drastic.

I'm afraid that a certain situation drives me to be someone that I am not, and I always want to be honest and real. I want to be me.

There's nothing about the way my life unfolded that should be seen as at all prescriptive for what anybody else wants to do.

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down.

To be what you always wanted to be, step away from conformity.

If you follow the herd, people may mistake you for a cow.

Live like you want to, not how anyone else wants you to.

Love who you are. Love and be what you want to be.

Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.

When he overheard the boys whispering that he was a queer, he said he regarded that as a compliment since so many of the world's great men had been homosexual. Alas, I've been sentenced to a life mundane heterosexuality. I can only hope that a few of you will be more fortunate.

Don't you own anything pink? She looked down at her bike shorts and camouflage T-shirt. —What's wrong with this? —Nothing, if you're planning to invade Cuba.

She rose from the desk, looking much tougher than someone wearing plastic dinosaur sandals should.

I wore a blue silk Brunswick jacket, close-fitting and edged with dark fur, and a matching petticoat, both quilted with a pattern of diamonds and swirling flowers. My gloves were bright green kidskin, and on my head I wore the one extravagant hat I'd brought, the sweeping brim covered in black velvet and crowned with a profusion of scarlet ribbons. I, Eliza Hamilton.

Fact number two: all women basically want to be wives and mothers—' 'No, honey, they don't. Sorry, but they just don't. My fifty per cent of the human race isn't a bunch of identical plastic dolls. We're human beings and we're all different and – incredible though this may seem to you – we don't all want the same thing

Keep in mind that the only person to write for is yourself.Tell the story you most desperately want to read.

my subjects' willingness to brave bullying and condemnation in order to reveal their individual selves makes it impossible to be nothing less than awestruck.

Why is she trying so hard to hide? She's never been a follower.

I think experienced makes me sound like an aging hooker.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.