Famous Quotes & Sayings

The loss there is an emotional connection. They're not going to know who their parent or grandparent was.

James Patterson

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

James Patterson

The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable.

James Patterson

Okay, that so did me in. Mr. Rock being all emotional? Expressing his feelings?" p. 12

James McAvoy

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.

James Marsters

I tend to be emotional when... I breathe.

John Mellencamp

When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.

John Lennon

The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.

Jim Parsons

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

George Lucas

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

Emanuel Ax

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Elizabeth Gilbert

In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. There is no choice more intensely personal after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

Lawrence O'Donnell

What I do respect is that Donald Trump knows that it is an emotional appeal and it might be emotional appeals that I don`t - can`t expect.But he knows that you have to appeal to the voter, and that`s why I may be wrong. I made a big deal about there`s no way he`s going to win.

Joseph Wambaugh

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

Joseph Campbell

The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

Juliana Hatfield

I'm kind of an emotional exhibitionist.

Lucian Freud

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

Malcolm Gladwell

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

Gaby Hoffmann

I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially.

Norman Mailer

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Octavia Butler

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

Ntozake Shange

I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.

Norman Vincent Peale

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

Norman Vincent Peale

The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health. . . .our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.

Ellen Ochoa

I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.

Joyce Meyer

You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.

Karen Kain

Know that there is so much more to you than your body. It's not just about perfecting the steps; you must trust your instincts to tell deep, emotional stories through the steps that you are performing.

Judith Wright

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

Leonard Cohen

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

Leigh Steinberg

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

Laurell K. Hamilton

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

Lisa Alther

The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.

Khaled Hosseini

It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.