Top 100 Express Yourself Quotes
#1. A Web site is the only medium of semipermanent communication where you can express yourself.
David Rusenko
#2. Sex is one of the most personal things we do as people. To have someone who says she loves you limit how you express yourself in the bedroom is like a small death. It kills the soul.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#3. You can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself, but please don't hurt each other!
Tommy Wiseau
#4. Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.
Kaiden Blake
#5. You don't want to be a one-trick pony. On a lot of Smiths songs, I used a pick or a plectrum, and for some of the slow songs, I used my thumbs and my fingers. That's why I love the bass - it's adaptable, and you can express yourself so well with it.
Andy Rourke
#6. The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself ...
Freeman Patterson
#7. I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.
Agnes Obel
#8. I am just a simple guy and I like when people enjoy themselves. I always say: you can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself but please don't hurt each other. I really don't know, to be honest with you. I'm very impressed with everything that has happened.
Tommy Wiseau
#9. Comics are just another medium to express yourself. It's not cinema; it's not literature; it's just something else. It has a specific requirement, which is that images are used to tell the story. There are lots of crappy movies, with guns and action and Arnold Schwarzenegger or whatever.
Marjane Satrapi
#10. You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
Henri Matisse
#11. I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.
Bob Ross
#12. Style is a display of character. It's also a great way to express yourself and the ladies like it.
Trey Songz
#13. You cannot truly express yourself until you first discover who you are.
Gangaji
#14. The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.
Friedrich St. Florian
#15. I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.
Kevin Hart
#17. Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.
Travis Barker
#18. When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.
Gilbert Hernandez
#19. To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Aristotle.
#20. You can still make today the day you change yourself, love yourself, forgive yourself, respect yourself, honor yourself, cherish yourself, admire yourself, express yourself, be true to yourself ... It's never too late!
Steve Maraboli
#21. We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.
Alexander Kluge
#22. It's not what you know about the computer that's important, but your ability to do things with it. By studying French in an academic setting, you get to know a lot about it, but typically, you can't express yourself well or have an interesting conversation with it.
Seymour Papert
#23. Hollywood allows you to go and express yourself.
Hans Zimmer
#24. Once you recognize, or admit, that your primary goal is to fully express yourself, you will find the means to achieve the rest of your goals ...
Warren G. Bennis
#26. For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the fly new beat. I can't sit still; I have no nostalgia. I don't have to have nostalgia.
El-P
#27. Since the future cannot be known and everything is changeable, I beg all of you to find the people you have come to love and express yourself with fervency. You will never have this chance again.
Michael Levy
#28. The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.
Steven Spielberg
#29. What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express yourself, to wear what you wanted to wear, to look the way you wanted to look, to have your own style, your own talk.
Larry Geller, Joel Spector, Patricia Romanowski
#30. I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.
John Mayall
#31. To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.
Bruce Lee
#32. Today you are more inclined to put your ideas and visions into action than usual were you have the ability to express yourself and solve problems alone.
Auliq Ice
#33. When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.
Zig Ziglar
#34. Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.
Susan Sontag
#35. Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.
Ezra Koenig
#36. You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.
Elsie De Wolfe
#37. The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself.
Bill Watterson
#38. It's a tiny revolution to express yourself fully and be who you want to be, especially when systems tell you that you can't. I've realized how powerful it is for me to just discuss issues with young people and begin conversations.
Amandla Stenberg
#39. Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
Nelson Mandela
#40. To be in any sort of relationship where you do not express yourself, simply to keep the peace, is a relationship ruled by one person and will never be balanced or healthy.
Bronnie Ware
#41. As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
Ben Harper
#42. In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie," says Scorsese. "I didn't learn how to make a movie in film school. What you learned in film school was to express yourself with pictures and sound. But learning to make a movie is totally different.
Peter Biskind
#43. Rose: "If you'd teach me to swear in Russian, I might have a new appreciation for it."Dimitri: "You swear too much already."Rose: "I just want to express myself."Dimitri: "Oh, Roza ... You express yourself more than anyone else I know."- Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Frostbite)
Richelle Mead
#44. Film is an incredible way to express yourself and your vision, as is fashion, but you have to make sure [to] be confident and honest and true to yourself and say something that means something, because that is really the point of any art.
Tom Ford
#45. Every time you express yourself in code, you should pat yourself on the back. Every time you write a comment, you should grimace and feel the failure of your ability of expression.
Anonymous
#46. Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.
Shunryu Suzuki
#47. You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.
Louis Armstrong
#48. My main intention is to inspire people. [Let] kids know that you experience things and it's okay to voice them and express yourself. Be an individual. If my record moves five people, that's good enough. I feel like I've done my job if it just touches somebody.
Sarah Hudson
#49. Express yourself, whether it is to a server who gave you exceptional service, or a taxi driver who tried to run you over or a child who looks at you in utter curiosity and you just have to smile and say 'hello', express yourself because you are a valuable part of this equation we call humanity.
Jim Killon
#50. I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.
Paula Cole
#51. Music comes from the soul. It's a way to express yourself, so we always, always need to save the music.
Ashanti
#52. YOU ARE AN ARTIST OF THE SPIRIT
Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.
Miguel Ruiz
#53. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.
Benjamin Franklin
#54. My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
Jack Bowman
#56. I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
Victoria Justice
#57. Look at YouTube, how many talented people there are. It's a whole new world of how to express yourself. I don't know how to work that world, but take advantage of it.
Penny Marshall
#58. The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'
Willem Dafoe
#59. Express yourself completely. Then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature; When it blows, there is only wind; When it rains, there is only rain; When the clouds pass, the sun shines through.
Lao-Tzu
#60. You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself.
Rula Jebreal
#62. Why wait for later when there might not be a later? Why wait for next time when there might not be a next time? We all have just today to express our love. If no one ever told you they loved you, then now's the perfect time liberate yourself, break that cycle and express yourself.
Ron Baratono
#63. You express yourself through written words. You're a writer.
Tara Sue Me
#64. To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
Ai Weiwei
#65. Strive from the outset to express yourself with such clarity that a bright twelve-year-old would understand you. Any fool can make it complicated: it takes focus to make it simple.
Keith Evans
#66. We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not matter what language you choose, the important thing is the words you use to express yourself.
Malala Yousafzai
#67. If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
Horace Mann
#68. Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
Russell Simmons
#69. If you're really good, you should express yourself ... a lot.
Michael Eisner
#70. You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.
John Carney
#71. As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#72. I am a huge fashion fan. It's a really cool way to express yourself.
Kiernan Shipka
#73. Sometimes it is better to express yourself without worrying about the results, than to regret forever
Anamika Mishra
#74. If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
Quentin Blake
#75. It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully.
Shunryu Suzuki
#76. For what good is freedom of expression if you lack the means to express yourself?
Roy Peter Clark
#77. Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it ... All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#78. Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.
Mulgrew Miller
#79. The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself.
Ben Lovett
#80. If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.
Jill Paton Walsh
#81. I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.
Kanye West
#82. It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.
Jodelle Ferland
#83. I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.
Edward Norton
#84. Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#85. As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.
Idina Menzel
#86. Professionally, I don't necessarily have to adhere to a certain dress code. However, I think that comfort is crucial. Otherwise, you won't be able to have fun and express yourself.
Jared Leto
#87. I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.
Chet Baker
#88. You would never find what you are looking for if you couldn't express yourself.
Paulo Coelho
#89. Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself
Michael Haneke
#90. Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#91. Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?
Christiane Northrup
#93. Managing your emotions doesn't mean you don't express yourself; it means you stop short of hurting others and sabotaging yourself.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#94. It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.
Antonia Thomas
#95. You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.
Gillian Armstrong
#96. I love fashion. What I love is the ability to express yourself, to be able to make a product and shoot an ad campaign that tosses you out into the world and lets you have a voice in contemporary culture, iconography. I felt a little bit neutered not having that voice.
Tom Ford
#97. You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
Ai Weiwei
#98. Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you ... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
Will Durant
#99. Never be afraid to express yourself in the stories you tell. There will always be those out there who don't agree, but doing what you love is what's important.
Laura Burke
#100. To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.
E'yen A. Gardner
