Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dolly Parton

I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.

Davey Havok

Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional.

Daniel Barenboim

Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and at the same time Wagner has extraordinary control over the effect he achieves.

Danica Patrick

I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.

Concha Buika

I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.

Claude M. Bristol

Thoughts create only according to their pitch, intensity, emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibrational plane.

Colin Greenwood

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

Cyril Connolly

In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

Cyril Connolly

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

Daphne Zuniga

Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible.

Dan Marino

I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

David Simon

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

Dan Brown

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

Corey Taylor

Emo is pathetic. It's a tired attempt at making bad music cool, all while rocking dumb haircuts and unisexual belts. Furthermore, adding the suffix '-core' to a description doesn't make it innovative. It makes you look like a tool with no imagination.

Craig Brewer

I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive political climate, an emotional climate to explore a town that has experienced a trauma and a shock, and starts overreacting.

David Byrne

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

David Byrne

Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.

Darren Hayes

I think I have a reputation for being really serious. In interviews I use big words, but I'm just an emotional goofball. I play practical jokes all the time.

David Bowie

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

David Eagleman

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.

Deepak Chopra

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

Deepak Chopra

Listen to your body's wisdom, which expresses itself through signals of comfort and discomfort. When choosing a certain behavior, ask your body, "How do you feel about this?" If your body sends a signal of physical or emotional distress, watch out. If your body sends a signal of comfort and eagerness, proceed.

Deepak Chopra

It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

Anderson Cooper

I’d wanted emotion but couldn’t find it here, so I settled for motion.

Chuck Todd

Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency.

Alfred Hitchcock

Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

Alfred Hitchcock

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

Alexis Korner

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

Amy Tan

Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

Anthony Bourdain

On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful than a guidebook, because it gives you those little details, a sense of the way a place smells, an emotional sense of the place. So, I'll bring Graham Greene's The Quiet American if I'm going to Vietnam. It's good to feel romantic about a destination before you arrive.

Andy Stanley

Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.