Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Krasinski

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

John Krasinski

You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Joe Wright

I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story I was telling and get rid of all the bumph that goes with it and allow the audience a more participatory experience. It was an attempt to do all of those things and to express the idea that all these people were just performing roles in their lives.

Frank Luntz

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

Hans Selye

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

John Mayer

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

John Mahoney

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

Pete Rozelle

Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems

Placido Domingo

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

Joss Whedon

Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

Joss Whedon

I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.

Kim Jong Il

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

Kent Nerburn

This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional level it is purely a fiction. It becomes what you let it become.

Kelly Osbourne

I'm an emotional eater. When I get upset, my diet goes out the window.

Monica Crowley

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

Mira Sorvino

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

Pearl S. Buck

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

Pema Chodron

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

Pema Chodron

Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.

Pema Chodron

If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

Pema Chodron

Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice.

Payne Stewart

For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.

Peter Salovey

We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.

Peter O'Toole

My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.

Simon Sinek

Because a true sense of purpose is deeply emotional, it serves as a compass to guide us to act in a way completely consistent with our values and beliefs. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

Robert Herjavec

If you're emotional and you're great at something, the money will follow.

Robert Henri

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

Taiye Selasi

When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

Sylvia Plath

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

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.

Rumi

Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.

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.