Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Sterling

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Nigella Lawson

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

Nicolas Cage

First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director.

Noomi Rapace

I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.

Nat King Cole

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Monica Seles

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

Mili Avital

I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.

Mike Mills

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.

John Wooden

Never let your emotions overrule your head.

Matthew Arnold

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matt Kemp

I've pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part.

Maxwell Maltz

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

Max Brooks

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

Maurice Ravel

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Matthew Perry

When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

Mary Tyler Moore

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

Patricia Heaton

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

Patricia Heaton

Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.

Pablo Neruda

Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable. It is necessary first to pan though all other poetry in order to become a political poet.

Philip Slater

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

Martin Schulz

European policy is always an interplay of rationality and emotion.

Leonardo da Vinci

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head…And I don’t think that should get any easier.

Paulo Coelho

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

Mariano Rivera

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

Max Eastman

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

Matthieu Ricard

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

Matt Stone

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

Merrill Markoe

As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.

Martina Hingis

I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing it.

Michael Giacchino

Brad Bird is fond of saying that music is the easiest thing that can derail a film because if it slightly goes a degree off track it will take the viewer in the wrong emotional direction. To work with people who actually care about that is a good thing.