Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carlin

I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices.

Christina Baldwin

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.

Chris Matthews

Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.

George Santayana

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

George Santayana

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

George Santayana

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

G. Stanley Hall

The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Jeff Lindsay

It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.

Jeanette Winterson

I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it.

Jeanette Winterson

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Jeanette Winterson

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn’t. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don’t leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Jessie J

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

Jessie J

He didn't flinch, but in his soul he did.

Jewel

Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.

Jeff Beck

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

Christian Wiman

The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.

Christa McAuliffe

If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.

Chris Pine

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.

Chris Johnson

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

George Carlin

Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

Fernando Pessoa

The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.

Ezra Pound

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

Euripides

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

Francis Ford Coppola

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

Jennifer Capriati

I was an emotional basket case.

Harriet Lerner

Being who we are requires that we can talk openly about things that are important to us, that we take a clear position on where we stand on important emotional issues, and that we clarify the limits of what is acceptable and tolerable to us in a relationship.

Gregory Hines

You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair.

Ian Somerhalder

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

Hugh Hardy

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

Hannah Arendt

The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.

He's very emotional about these charges, ... He thinks they are absurd.

He's trying real hard. You see emotion on his face. There's times when he's there and times when he's not.