Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Louv

Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. The disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.

Rian Johnson

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

Richard Foreman

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

Richard Gere

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

Rebecca Hall

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

Trevor Rabin

I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

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.

Vincent Kartheiser

You don't have to be kind. You have to be calm. Once you start showing that people can affect your emotions, then you obviously don't have that much power. If a stewardess can affect your emotional life, then you don't have any power in life and you just showed your whole hand.

Washington Irving

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

William Butler Yeats

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

Wilhelm Reich

The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.

Wilhelm Reich

Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.

Win Butler

I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot

Virat Kohli

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

Yanni

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

W. Eugene Smith

Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the selection of the subject matterand by his decision as to the exact cinematic instant of exposure, he is blending the variables of interpretation into an emotional whole.

Yves Behar

To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.

Ziggy Marley

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

William H. Macy

Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.

William Dunbar

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

Warren Buffett

To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.

Warren Buffett

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

Warren Buffett

The key to success is emotional stability.

Warren Buffett

If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.

Vincent Van Gogh

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.