Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Stephenson

It would be quite unusual for me to get deep into a project and then shitcan it. One of the advantages of having done this for a while is that I have a better sense than I used to of when something is or isn't working. Until I developed that sense, this was a pretty dicey career for me, both in terms of paying the rent, and emotional wear and tear.

Milan Kundera

In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.

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.

Harvey Mackay

The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can't quite imagine if you've spent your whole career in a corporation.

Louise J. Kaplan

We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it immensely difficult to give them up....Because they were made at a time of life when we were utterly dependent on them, the love attachments of infancy have inordinate power over us, more than any other emotional investment.

The emotion we had Saturday was probably an all-time high from what I've seen before. When you're on the field and you look over to the sideline after a play and everybody's going crazy, that type of emotion is what we need each game. It sparks the way we play.

The emotions are high right now. Everybody's ready for that first game. We've just got to be patient, stay with our pattern and take it one day at a time.

The emotion of this week has been overwhelming. It's like losing someone in your family.

The emotion of Pennsylvania is captured. It just reiterates the quality and quantity of Pennsylvania artists.

Richard Hamming

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.

The emotional response is natural. However, people have to let the intellectual side win, because the only way they will ever have enough money to retire is if they have equity-like returns.

The guys were pretty torn up. It was very emotional as you would expect. But the team is rallying together. They know there are a lot worse things that could happen. We'll learn from this and put more emphasis on this rule in the future.

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.

Arthur Ganson

The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves.

Rory Sabbatini

A lot of mixed emotions. A lot of it is relief.

You were frustrated with her, you wanted to help her because this is a mental illness, this hoarding is, and you also were frustrated with her and you wanted to do to her what she was doing to the dogs...Some real mixed emotions when you went on the property.

Hedi Slimane

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject ...

You've got to come out with emotion and play every play like it's the last play. We didn't do that. We didn't execute. We didn't move without the ball. We just didn't play.

You've got a market of emotions, and I think the emotions show us that the markets want to rise.

Humphrey Bogart

the gamut of emotions from A to B.