Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Lau

When you feel like this isn't your business, get out of the business.

Andy Partridge

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

Alban Berg

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

Alber Elbaz

Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?

Albert Brooks

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

Albert Brooks

I don't know that I can define fear. But one of the sources of fear is holding up some sort of model life that doesn't exist and feeling like you're far away from it.

Albert Camus

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Albert Camus

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

Albert Camus

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

Albert Camus

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

Albert Camus

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Amanda Hocking

I paused outside your door to see if you were awake, and you clearly were, so I came in." "You still can't just barge in." I crossed my arms over my chest. "Would you like me to go back out and knock?" Loki gestured to the doors behind him. "Would that make you feel better?

Annie Dillard

Your feelings are none of your business.

Annie Dillard

What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world.

Annie Dillard

Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet.

Annie Dillard

There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

Annie Dillard

I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.

Daniel J. Boorstin

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Daniel Kahneman

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

D. H. Lawrence

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

D. H. Lawrence

The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.

Cristina Saralegui

I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.

Cullen Hightower

When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.

Clifton Fadiman

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

Danny Elfman

You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.

Daniel Day-Lewis

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

Dan Chaon

The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it's that feeling. I always feel that way.

David Foster Wallace

He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.

David Copperfield

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

David Archuleta

Can't let the music stop, Can't let this feeling end, 'Cause if I do, It'll all be over, And I'll never see you again!

Don Johnson

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

Dominique McElligott

I distinctly remember watching Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, and my parents were discussing the fact that hes an actor. To me, it was a foreign concept. I was like, Someone is pretending to do that? Thats so awesome! After that, it just stayed in the back of my mind.