Irving Berlin on expression
Irving Berlin42 quotes“Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I’d like to express my thanks – I’ve got the sun in the mornin’ and the moon at night.”
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I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin I’m dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be white.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin After you get what you want you don’t want it.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin When I’m worried and I can’t sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin Gos bless America, my home sweet home.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin Heaven… I’m in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin All alone by the telephone.
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
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More on expression
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra PoundEzra Pound Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
Paul CezannePaul Cezanne Predictions can sound really good if you’re good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I’m not really good at that, so I don’t want to.
Steve WozniakSteve Wozniak Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
Paul CezannePaul Cezanne Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
Paul CezannePaul Cezanne With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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