Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ozwald Boateng

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

Peter Greenaway

I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to handle those situations is at a sufficient remove. It's like a doctor and a nurse and a casualty situation. You can't help the patient and you can't help yourself by emoting. And I don't think cinema is intended for therapy, so I object also to that huge, massive manipulation which is perpetrated on the public.

Mel Brooks

My movies were not reaping the kind of emotional rewards that I wanted. I wanted them to be appreciated and they weren't. I didn't want the reviews to say, "Mel Brooks has made another movie," and you get the title somewhere in the second paragraph.

Mary McDonnell

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

Mary Oliver

Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.

Piet Mondrian

Curves are so emotional.

Piet Mondrian

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

Philip Schultz

My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.

Philip Schultz

Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to convey this truth with any force, or artistry, one needs to 'create' a form of expression, and this form determines its own "genuine information".

Pete Wentz

With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

Picabo Street

A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.

Nathaniel Branden

It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself.

Victor Hugo

Emotion is always new.

Vic Fuentes

We get these really deep and emotional fan letters sometimes that are so heartbreaking or shocking or haunting sometimes that I can kind of relate to them in my own way and connect with our fans in that way.

Vernon Howard

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Rita Wilson

Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.

Rita Mae Brown

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

Thomas More

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Timothy Leary

Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.

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.

Robert Ludlum

Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.

Sara Rue

My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it.

Sara Shepard

That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea.

Sandra Bernhard

I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.

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.