Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theresa Breslin

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.

Terry Goodkind

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

Terence Stamp

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

Terence McKenna

This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else's being you can't be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism. The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

Teju Cole

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

Temple Grandin

I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

Sebastian Vettel

I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I'd actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.

Sebastian Vettel

I put everything in that last lap, it was very emotional when I crossed the line. It was all I had, I gave it all.

Scarlett Johansson

Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of my work as an actress has really allowed me to open up my mind. I think I understand my emotional state and my complexities now in a much clearer way, and I can put them to rest in a way that there's almost a catharsis that happens through the work, where I can do it and then find myself again.

Shreya Ghoshal

I truly get very emotional when I am performing and see their (Fans) love for me.

Shunryu Suzuki

The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us.

Shannyn Sossamon

I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably.

Sevyn Streeter

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

Sean Young

If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to anybody else again,' I'm like, right, sure. It's just not practical to me on an emotional level. Just because I'm married, I'm not dead.

Len Wiseman

I think that it drives from an emotional connection with everybody that pulls you through all of those events, whether it's the events or what would be more the action, or I guess the visual effects side of it. So it always starts with me from - emotionally - 'Why do you care about the people who are going through what they're going through?' Because it takes a hell of a lot to put them through that. So you better care for them when they're doing it.

Lee Johnson

The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.

Lawrence Durrell

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether." These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion.

Laura Schlessinger

Emotions have no I.Q.

Marc Newson

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

Marc Chagall

My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.

Thomas a Kempis

We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.

Sade Adu

When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

Robert Jay Lifton

The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around it are issues most decisive to thought reform's outcome.

Walt Disney

A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

Virginia Satir

Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.

Salli Richardson

When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.

Russell Simmons

Most artists are making as much money now as they could have made... in the heyday of Def Jam [when the] Beastie Boys would sell 10 million records or DMX would sell 6 or 7 million records. Those records are one thing, but then all the other ways to exploit the emotional relationship between artist and community is so much greater that I would guess that they're making as much or more money than they could have ever made.

Russell Simmons

The emotional attachment you get with a client or the music fan allows you access to do a lot of things.

Sally Field

I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.

Rosa Parks

If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.

Susan Sarandon

What I like about The Meddler style of movie is that it's a fairly lighthearted romantic comedy, but there are hidden moments where something happens that's unexpected, that hopefully have some kind of emotional resonance that you didn't see coming. I love when a film does that.

Sidney Crosby

There's no doubt I'm emotional.