Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Arnold

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matt Kemp

I've pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part.

Maxwell Maltz

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

Max Brooks

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

Maurice Ravel

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Matthew Perry

When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

Marilyn vos Savant

When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.

Humphrey Bogart

the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Jonathan Lethem

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

Jonathan Lethem

By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.

Jonathan Haidt

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Jonathan Alter

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

Joyce Carol Oates

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

Katey Sagal

I'm a pretty emotional person.

Kate Winslet

I knew it was going to be important that if I had an audience understand who she was, then all those things had to come from a place that was grounded, as opposed to being tics and manners and twitches. I didn't think it was going to be as rich, perhaps, as if I was going to make it more emotional.

Rex Harrison

Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor

Tyler Blackburn

I'm very sensitive. It's always been something I'm very in tune with. I am very emotional. Sometimes to the point of where I just want to hide away, because I can't get a handle on myself.

Tyler Perry

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

Troy Polamalu

Orthodox chanting is non-emotional, it's very monotone,

Rhonda Britten

Your body’s reaction to fear is the same whether you are faced with a physical threat or an emotional one.

Regina Spektor

We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life.

Rick Warren

It’s not just what you eat that matters, it’s what eats you. You can have all the right macrobiotics and organic food, but if your body is filled with resentment, worry, fear, lust, guilt, anger, bitterness, or any other emotional disease, it’s going to shorten your life.

Owen D. Young

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

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.