#presses

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse. ↗

— Kurt Eisner

#deserves #fears #greatest #national #people

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference. ↗

— James Brown

#ago #difference #expresses #fact #few

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is. ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#comes #compact #dark #expresses #frame

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#being #consciousness #enter #greater #i

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#cannot #control #impresses #master #our

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#bob #bob dylan #dylan #gonna #i

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#armor #attacked #expresses #full #hot

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. ↗

— James Wolcott

#dark #door #down #drop #election

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't. ↗

— Brad Holland

#art #cliches #expresses #political #propaganda

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#articulate #child #expresses #hears #individual