Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Burton

Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.

Tim Burton

[Childbirth] is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. It's like an 'Alien' movie. I started crying, it was so emotional ... I was there in the room but I wasn't planning on doing much. But then I see this blue pinhead come out and I think I said to the nurse, 'What the hell is that?' And then it turns into this round red thing in seconds. It's just shocking.

Woody Allen

I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of.

William McFee

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

William J. Clinton

I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.'

William James

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

William James

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

William James

A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Good practice, everyone," Rusty said at last. "Light on the actual learning, heavy on the emotional catharsis, and thanks to Jared I think I need a rabies shot, but them's the breaks.

Sarah Caldwell

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

Sara Bareilles

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.

Warren G. Bennis

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

Valerie Bertinelli

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.

Robin Williams

My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.

Rob Sheffield

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.

Rex Harrison

Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor

Robert Greene

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

Robert Anton Wilson

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

Robert Anton Wilson

I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.

Robert Anton Wilson

The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).

Rob Kardashian

I'm a Pisces - emotional.

Rickie Lee Jones

I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.

Richard Louv

Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. The disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.

Rian Johnson

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

Richard Foreman

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

Richard Gere

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

Rebecca Hall

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

Rivers Cuomo

I have no interest in emo. I'm all about rap metal.

Trevor Rabin

I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

Saul Bellow

In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes - and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.

Rohinton Mistry

Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure...

Robert Smithson

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

Robert Quine

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.