Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.

Anne Carson

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

Anjelica Huston

Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.

Andrew Wyeth

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

Andrew Weil

I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.

Andrei Tarkovsky

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

Chuck Palahniuk

Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.

Chuck Palahniuk

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

Chuck Palahniuk

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

Chuck Palahniuk

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.

Chuck Klosterman

The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated.

Christopher Walken

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

David Attenborough

Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language.

David Simon

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

Dan Brown

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

The singers will be very disappointed if they don't reach people on an emotional level.

The stronger the identification with the team, typically the stronger emotional reaction to the losses. So the higher the highs, and the lower the lows.

Dave Allison

The team got through an emotional day where we lost two valuable members of our team.

People tend to be a lot more emotional (with mutual funds). It's a more volatile situation for the manager.

People get a little fed up and see their 401(k) money down 40 percent over the last year, so they start to freak out a little bit. It's a very emotional time and the market trades on emotion. I think a lot of people have lost their nest eggs, so do they want to lose more?

Connie Chung

are an incredible couple, with an edge. Even when they argue, you just know there's a great emotional tie between them. Sometimes they do it for sport, sometimes just to wind the other person up.

Right now, the 'no' people have really got off the ground. They're really making a very strong emotional pitch to people, and they are having some effect.

There's a real relief that we can get back to the job of teaching. The emotional level was getting quite high.

Jerry Reinsdorf

The most emotional moment of the day for me was the ovation for Aaron. That was just awesome.

This has been an incredible -- every minute -- emotional project. You have a great responsibility to inspire.

This has been a long, deep-seated, emotional issue. It's a great day for these victims.

Craig Biggio

It's unbelievable even to say the World Series and that we're going right now. So, yeah, I don't know how else to express it. It's a pretty emotional day.

For her it was emotional to see it go down. For me it was emotional for it to be up. It was a reminder of what could have been.

Jon Favreau

For me, I love food. It's my greatest pleasure and also the thing that could ruin you as well. It's one of those things where, if you're not thoughtful about it, it could be unhealthy. But if there's a mindfulness about it; it actually is a wonderful tool of emotional expression.

It stinks. I guess they wanted to make a move because of their record, but I went from one emotional high of our win to an emotional low in a pretty short period.

Reggie Sanders

It's not emotional anymore, ... It's not a head game anymore, because I've been able to come back for two or three weeks. Now, I'm in the groove where I need to be.

It's their Senior Night, and their players have been through a whole lot. We know it's going to be an emotional game for them. This is one of those times where our players have to be tough, match their intensity and prove they want it more.

This is really and emotional time for the town, but I grew up with Lloyd.