Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Taymor

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

Julian Fellowes

Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”

Joyce Meyer

You may get an emotional thrill when you first buy something, but emotions are fickle. You buy that one thing you think will complete your happiness, but after awhile the feeling goes away and you have to go to the next thing. You just keep going from purchase to purchase looking for the one thing that will finally satisfy. But stuff can't satisfy.

Paul Tournier

People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.

Paul Kurtz

Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.

Paul Di Filippo

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

Frank Luntz

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

Maggie Stiefvater

sensitive," I tried. Sam translated, "squishy." "creative." "Dangerously Emo." "thoughtful." Feng shui.

Maggie Stiefvater

Creative" "Dangerously emo.

Maggie Stiefvater

Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me doubtfully. He was right to look doubtful. My head didn't work with words very well- at least not in this abstract, descriptive sort of way. Grace:"Sensitive" I tried. Sam translated: "Squishy" Grace:"Creative" Sam:"Dangerously emo" Grace:"Thoughtful" Sam:"Feng shui." I laughed so hard I snorted. Grace:"How did you get feng shui out of thoughtful?" Sam:"You know, because in feng shui, you arrange funiture and plants and stuff in thoughtful ways.

Hans Selye

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

Harlan Howard

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

John Bradshaw

Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

John Buchan

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

Lupe Fiasco

Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it

Judy Smith

You could see in their faces there is a pain there. I can only imagine how they're feeling. There is a lot of emotions going on in them.

W. S. Gilbert

You could say you get frustrated at officiating, but you can't let your emotions get you down. It was frustrating for me, and I took my game to a new level. I let the refs get to me, I let the players get to me. I've got to learn, personally, to relax and go out there and keep working hard and keep doing the things I do well.

You can't tell people to go pour their money and energy and emotion into rebuilding under the threat that their homes could be bulldozed in a year from now. That's not a fair position to put people in.

Rocky Bernard

You can't play this game if you're not having fun. This game is played on so much emotion that when you're out there, you have to get after it a little bit.

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.

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.

Marilyn vos Savant

When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.

Humphrey Bogart

the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Jonathan Lethem

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

Jonathan Lethem

By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.

Jonathan Haidt

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.