#presses

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. ↗

— Albert Camus

#appeal #being #essence #every #expresses

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

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#boldly #deeply #expresses #feels #fervor

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

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. ↗

— Alice Walker

#best #could #expresses #extreme #gratitude

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. ↗

— Alice Walker

#comes #correctly #culture #describe #does

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

I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness. ↗

— Anne Heche

#big mouth #bit #expresses #i #life

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing. ↗

— Bela Bartok

#absolutely nothing #cannot #conceive #expresses #i