Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Arndt

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

Mark Burnett

Facing your fears robs them of their power.

Mariel Hemingway

I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.

Marie Lu

Without emotion, what's the point of being human?

Theodore Roosevelt

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

Theodor Adorno

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Margaret Halsey

The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.

Kimbra

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

Michael Bolton

But I'm not superstitious. I don't really eat dinner before I go on stage, because digesting a lot of food kind of shuts you down. And I try not to get involved in emotional conversations with anyone beforehand either, so I've got a clear head.

I guess its my job to give the pep talk but I was so emotional listening to these stories I don't know how good of a job I did.

I think our kids realize that we've got to be a little more disciplined, a little more in control, in that situation. We can't tune down the emotion because, if we're not emotional, we don't have a shot.

I think our emotions were running a little high. It was hard to focus even if it was our last game of the season. Plus, their zone gave us fits. We weren't able to knock down shots.

Jazmine Sullivan

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

Ron Reagan

I'm OK with my own emotions, but other people's emotions just put me on the floor.

Ed Belfour

I had to get the focus back. I've been a part of some of those nights before and they are always emotional and special.

Grady Sizemore

I had mixed emotions, ... It was such a tough week and a frustrating time. I wanted to come through and I didn't. A lot was going through my head.

I had mixed emotions (about leaving) at first, but no regrets now. Had I stayed in St. Louis, I might not even have a job next year.

Tanith Belbin

In 2002, I was sitting at home watching the opening ceremonies, not knowing how emotional it would be knowing I could have been there. I turned it off pretty quick. I don't know what it would have felt like if we'd had to do it again. I'm glad we don't.

The first emotion you feel is disappointment, ... That doesn't stay for too long. I don't think it stayed as long as people would expect. It was fast and fleeting.

Curtis Joseph

The first period wasn't the script that I wanted, but fortunately, the ending was. There was a lot of emotion out there. I grew up in the area.

Neal Stephenson

It would be quite unusual for me to get deep into a project and then shitcan it. One of the advantages of having done this for a while is that I have a better sense than I used to of when something is or isn't working. Until I developed that sense, this was a pretty dicey career for me, both in terms of paying the rent, and emotional wear and tear.

Milan Kundera

In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.

Lauryn Hill

It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

Laura Marling

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

Laura Linney

When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response.

Lisa Leslie

I tend not to get too emotional about things.

Lisa Kudrow

I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.

Johnny Depp

I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn't really there.

John Updike

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

John Ridley

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

John Olver

America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.

Lamar Odom

People tell me that I'm always smilin' on the court. I don't think about it. I just get emotional out there.

Libba Bray

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.