Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pablo Neruda

Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable. It is necessary first to pan though all other poetry in order to become a political poet.

Philip Slater

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

Martin Schulz

European policy is always an interplay of rationality and emotion.

Leonardo da Vinci

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Lauryn Hill

It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

Laura Marling

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

Laura Linney

When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response.

Lisa Leslie

I tend not to get too emotional about things.

Lisa Kudrow

I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.

Johnny Depp

I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn't really there.

John Updike

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

John Ridley

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

John Olver

America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.

Lamar Odom

People tell me that I'm always smilin' on the court. I don't think about it. I just get emotional out there.

Gary Chapman

Gifts need not be expensive; after all, "it's the thuoght that counts." But I remind you, it is not the thought left in your head that counts; it is the gift that came out of the thought that communicates emotional love.

Gary Chapman

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

George Gershwin

A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

Luis Barragan

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Luc de Clapiers

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

Nigella Lawson

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

Nicolas Cage

First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director.

Noomi Rapace

I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.

Nat King Cole

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Monica Seles

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

Mili Avital

I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.

Mike Mills

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.

John Wooden

Never let your emotions overrule your head.

Matthew Arnold

The heart less bounding at emotion new, / The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

Neil Diamond

the hardest part of this whole project. Each song has its own story, its own emotional content, its own reason for being.