Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

Jamie Wyeth

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

Arthur Golden

My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.

Arthur Golden

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Arthur Golden

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

Anton Chekhov

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

bell hooks

There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.

Barry Sanders

Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm feeling a little delicate.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If you are feeling helpless, help someone.

Ariel Garten

Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable.

Ariel Pink

I definitely don't feel a sense of jealousy or competition, and that's a really good feeling.

Arianna Huffington

Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings

Delta Burke

A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.

Demi Lovato

It's very crucial that you get your feelings out- but don't ever inflict harm on your body because your body is sacred

Demi Lovato

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.

Demetri Martin

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

Daniel Handler

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

Daniel Handler

Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

Daniel Handler

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

Daniel Handler

If you don’t care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the first letters. Somebody who didn’t care about dentists, for instance could say ‘Dentist, schmentists.

Daniel Handler

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

Miley Cyrus

There's no better feeling than making somebody smile.

Miley Cyrus

Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment

We've saber rattled so much it seems like, just to save face, we're going to have to go in. The feeling seems to be that war is not necessary, but inevitable.

Carson McCullers

It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.

Carol Alt

I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine

Alan Lightman

You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.

Alan Cumming

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

Aimee Mann

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.

Charles Kimbrough

I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting's what I liked to do most. There must have been a moment when I felt, 'Oh, my God, I like this and what am I going to do about it?

Blaise Pascal

We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.

Blaise Pascal

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.