Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

Alan Price

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

Alan Hovhaness

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

Alan Green

Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions, but we've got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it's about being human.

Akhil Sharma

To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal.

Chris Chelios

I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to.

Chris Colfer

Don't be afraid to be human - you're human, you're going to have emotional days. You're going to have days when things suck and then some days when things are great, but don't feel guilty because you're experiencing that. Don't feel guilty from being human.

Chip Conley

Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it. Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.

David Schwimmer

I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked about the last scene. It was interesting because it was split right down the middle, 50/50. About half the audience wanted it to end with the very emotional scene between Clive and Liana, and that feeling of realization and catharsis. And, the other half were adamant about keeping that last scene.

David Guetta

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

David Gray

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

David Gray

I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.

David Gray

I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.

David Denby

The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

Dave Barry

I realize that there are certain hardships that only females must endure, such as childbirth, waiting in lines for public-restroom stalls, and a crippling, psychotic obsession with shoe color. Also, females tend to reach emotional maturity very quickly, so that by age 7 they are no longer capable of seeing the humor in loud inadvertent public blasts of flatulence, whereas males can continue to derive vast enjoyment from this well into their 80s.

Cary Fukunaga

Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously without any levity are missing an important ingredient to the potential emotional impact of their stories.

Carlos Slim

Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

Carlos Santana

The concept is to weave in some emotion,

Camille Paglia

Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.

Bryan Fuller

One of the things that I always think about is the emotional sophistication of animals and how much we're learning about the emotional sophistication of animals. If you're eating a pig, you're essentially eating the equivalent of a four-year-old human being.

Casey Kasem

Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

Micky Ward

Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you'll never get up.

The Plaza is one of those places where everyone had an emotional moment. People's parents got engaged there, people got married there or fell in love there.

We've all been through that at one time or another where you escape to something that makes you not feel what you're going through. I think that's what makes people respond on an emotional level.

Lauren Bowles

When your playing drama, and you're in the moment, and you can nail the emotion that is called for, it just feels like a smooth thing. It's so great. There is nothing like getting a laugh, though.

Holly Holm

I know there's a lot of emotion going into a fight, but everything in a fight - none of it comes out of an evil heart.

Katie Wright

We're not going to make it an emotional battle, but just try to stay composed.

Bob Newhart

Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.

Bo Burnham

Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you're on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don't want to be onstage looking like a robot, I want to be at the end of the day very emotional and what feels like someone being up there rather than reciting things. That's always the challenge, to analyze and then somehow lose yourself in something you absolutely know backwards and forwards. And nothing's going to surprise you, but you have to be surprised by it and let it surprise you.

David Viscott

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

Audrey Tautou

I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you understand this huge emotional frustration. You did one feat, then you go back one.

Audre Lorde

Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.

Arthur Penn

Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.