Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Tan

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

Aloe Blacc

Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

Jon Landau

Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction - always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it's done.

It can lead to depression and even suicide.

Steve Sampson

He is very depressed by the situation because he did everything possible.

Tanya Tucker

The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.

He's a little depressed and upset. It just stinks. He made a mistake.

Elliott Smith

I think that record gave me a reputation for being a really dark, depressed person but I think I'm just about as happy as all the other people I know.

I think the folks at the Fed would like to raise the federal funds rate as high as they can short of seriously depressing economic growth. They want to make sure they have plenty of room to ease next time they have to do so.

We've been waiting a year for some sign of a turnaround in IT spending, and we haven't seen it. Any kind of reinforcement of that message tends to have a depressing effect on tech stocks.

What is depressing is the failure to act, the indifference, and the negligence of the federal government for everything that touches our seaway,

Albert Barnes

Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum

He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

If it was to develop into a depression tonight or tomorrow, it could develop into a tropical storm.

Craig Kilborn

I would do that and watch him, and it's depressing 'cause he is that good,

Jessie Pavelka

If we live a sedentary life, you're going to be depressed and lack confidence. So get out there and get active.

I got very depressed at one stage. ... When you're really depressed you think of suicide but there aren't any means of doing it.

Terry Bradshaw

When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life.

There are risks to antidepressant treatment, but the risks of untreated depression are worse.

Bill Bryson

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

Tom Hodgkinson

The phrase 'work/life balance' encapsulates a depressing outlook.

Alain de Botton

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

Brendan Sexton III

I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.

Falling oil prices could put further pressure on gas prices that are already depressed due to unfavorable weather.

Clinton Portis

We've got to be focused. We can't let a QB switch depress us. We can't let it get us down. Whoever's back there, we've got to roll with it.

Clinton Portis

We've got to be focused. We can't let a QB switch depress us, ... We can't let it get us down. Whoever's back there, we've got to roll with it.

You can tell a difference in them from the very first month. Once they have been given permission to be a woman, the depression lifts.

May Sarton

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

John Grant

It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood out quite distinctly, head and shoulders above the rest of the herd: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, and Bush’s America. At times when working on the three relevant chapters, I had to remind myself which chapter was the one in front of me: the parallels between the three regimes, in terms of their vigorous attempts to trample honest science underfoot, are as horrifically close as that.

Overall, I was more impressed than depressed by what I saw, ... Many Africans have figured out what they need to do to save their environment and themselves.

B. B. King

The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.

Cecelia Ahern

Holly smiled weakly. Gerry would know exactly how she was feeling, he would know exactly what to say and he would know exactly what to do. He would give her one of his famous hugs and all her problems would melt away. She grabbed a pillow from her bed and hugged it tight. She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone. And the depressing thing was that she couldn't imagine ever embracing anyone the same way again.

Carrie Fisher

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.