Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rollo May

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

Rollo May

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Stephen King

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

Stephen King

If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.

Stephen King

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

Stephanie Rice

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

Sophie Marceau

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions

Stanley Kubrick

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

Stephen Chbosky

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

Stefon Harris

Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.

Tim Burton

3D is great, but I just think of it as another tool, like colour or music or sound. It has the potential to add another emotional layer to certain things if you use it right. But it's not the saviour [of the movies], the be all and end all, the reason to do something.

Tim Burton

Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.

Tim Burton

[Childbirth] is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. It's like an 'Alien' movie. I started crying, it was so emotional ... I was there in the room but I wasn't planning on doing much. But then I see this blue pinhead come out and I think I said to the nurse, 'What the hell is that?' And then it turns into this round red thing in seconds. It's just shocking.

Woody Allen

I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of.

William McFee

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

William J. Clinton

I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.'

William James

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

William James

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

William James

A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Good practice, everyone," Rusty said at last. "Light on the actual learning, heavy on the emotional catharsis, and thanks to Jared I think I need a rabies shot, but them's the breaks.

Sarah Caldwell

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

Sara Bareilles

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.

Warren G. Bennis

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

Valerie Bertinelli

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.

Robin Williams

My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.

Rob Sheffield

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.

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

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.