Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Akana

I still get very emotional when a girl - 13 or 14 - comes up to me and says, 'Your videos really helped me.'

When you sign on here, you understand this organization. There is so much soul to it, ... It's just the way it is. Players understand that. This has been very emotional for all of them. That's what makes this organization the way it is. There is so much personal feeling in this place. They understand and value that.

Wynton Marsalis

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

Alex Shoumatoff

Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

Aleister Crowley

Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.

Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

Albert Einstein

The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

We opened in New York in 2002. So that was an emotional time especially after what happened in 2001. This was extra special -- you're home in front of your family.

One of the most emotional moments for me was when I was talking to a woman in a town that practically did not exist anymore,

Janis Joplin

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Janet Jackson

I can be an emotional eater.

What we learned post-9/11 is that people get tapped out on these huge emotional responses, ... That is a real issue because all of us have limited budgets.

But sooner or later you snap out of it, and you realize maybe that wasn't a good thing. Maybe that wasn't helping me process the emotional trauma. You feel this emotion, but it's not real.

Brunswick is much improved, and to play them on the road in kind of a hostile environment after an emotional game last week, I think our kids did look at it as a challenge, and I was pleased with the way they responded.

Michael Behe

Because of the immense publicity that's mushroomed around this issue in the past six months, more people are getting emotional about the topic. And it's generally not on my side.

Will Wright

Imagine a game that can sense your interests, emotional states and abilities,

Jeremy Shockey

I'm always going to be looking in a positive direction, ... If I look like a fool on national TV, so be it. I'm an emotional person, that's how I am.

J. Taylor

Now we can form an emotional relationship. It's all relative to the performances of the actors around him.

Newell tries to find the emotional reality in material that, until now, has been used more to showcase fantasy and wonder.

Obviously, it was pretty emotional for everyone. She didn't remember much. But when I walked into the hospital, she did remember my face.

Obviously he was surprised and shocked. He did not know he was being tape-recorded. ... He was emotional and he said it was disturbing.

Obviously, he's a very emotional young man. It's the nature of the beast, and we move on.

Mariella Frostrup

Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.

I don't think we were tired in any way or not feeling motivated. But it's been a long year and we've had lots of emotional times -- trying to win the trials and the times after that. We can't look back on this year and say we're disappointed. We had a great run.

I have gained a lot of friends from being here. I get especially emotional when marching in parades and holding the American flag.

I don't have a favorite. There's a huge number of spectacular images from both. A lot of them have very emotional value.

I don't know what I'm going to do. It's going to be difficult. I'm emotional just talking about it right now. It's very much an honor.

Fernando Alonso

I am extremely happy and it is a very emotional day for me,

Ben Fountain

A person deprived of beauty and pleasure puts me in mind of the Haitian notion of a zombie - a person disconnected from his or her soul, a person who works for others' profit but never his own, a person who mindlessly does the bidding of the boss and exists in an emotional and mental limbo.

Carol Gilligan

Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.

Alan Lightman

Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.