Quotes About Self-expression

Wie niet liever met eigen krachten een eigen wereld bouwt, de schepper van een wereld is, dan eeuwig in zijn eigen schulp te blijven, die is door de geest met een banvloek getroffen, met een interdict, maar in omgekeerde betekenis: hij is verjaagd uit het heiligdom van de geest, verstoken van de eeuwige luxe van de geest, en gedoemd om wiegeliedjes te zingen over zijn eigen privé-gelukzaligheid en daar 's nachts van zichzelf te dromen.

I'm always so glad,' Sylvie murmured, 'that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.' 'You're very good at being yourself,' Ursula said, aware that it didn't necessarily sound like a compliment. 'Well, I've had years of practice.

They all chose Indian names for themselves. Teddy was Little Fox ("Naturally," Ursula said). Nancy was Little Wolf ("Honiahaka" in Cheyenne, Mrs. Shawcross said. She had a book she referred to). Mrs. Shawcross herself was Great White Eagle ("Oh, for heaven's sake," Sylvie said, "talk about hubris").

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.

Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me.

You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!

I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery.

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

What good in a man's life if it's not lived free eh?

Go force your condescending man-logic on the next house. You can go now.

I did no research on The Best Man. That was something that came out from my own head.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.