Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spike Jonze

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

Sigmund Freud

An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.

Scott Weiland

I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

Steven Pinker

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

Sun Ra

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures...

Sue Johnson

Naming an emotion begins the process of regulating it and reflecting on it.

Richard Simmons

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

Richard Simmons

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

Richard Hammond

I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.

Tariq Ramadan

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

T. Harv Eker

The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.

Suze Orman

Try handling problems in the office as dispassionately as you can and I guarantee you will have a better time of it; not least because when you bring emotion into the conversation, you furnish your colleagues with an easy "out" for dismissing you. If you are able to strip out the emotion, however, people have to deal with you based on the facts.

Susan Sontag

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

Susan Sontag

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

Scott Adams

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.

Joss Whedon

Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

Joss Whedon

I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.

Kim Jong Il

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

Kent Nerburn

This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional level it is purely a fiction. It becomes what you let it become.

Kelly Osbourne

I'm an emotional eater. When I get upset, my diet goes out the window.

Keith Jarrett

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

Scott Porter

As an actor, you want people to see you as a whole person, not just a single facet of your emotional spectrum. And whether it's the audience or the industry, you end up getting pigeonholed as one thing. So for people to see I can be funny and stay in shape is a bit of a weight off my shoulders.

Lee Iacocca

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

Laurette Taylor

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?

Laura Bell Bundy

I always tend to remember the funny moments. When I lost my shoe (even though it was funny) there was something motivating about it, I just ended in this spastic emotional way. I tend to remember the more extreme moments.

L. Ron Hubbard

There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions. If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.

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.

Sinead O'Connor

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

Simone Elkeles

I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It's all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the same time, it makes me nervous and self-conscious and emotional. Love exists. I know it does, because I'm madly, deeply, hopelessly in love.

Simon Sinek

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.