Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

Virginia Woolf

...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

William Blake

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

Werner Erhard

I have a lot of feeling for Ron Hubbard. His genius has not been sufficiently acknowledged.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

Salma Hayek

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

Ryan Sheckler

I just personally really enjoy having a clean body. I shower twice a day. I just like feeling clean and feeling smooth.

Wayne Dyer

You never need to defend yourself or your desires to anyone, as those inner feelings are Spirit speaking to you. Those thoughts are sacred, so don't ever let anyone trample on them.

Tove Lo

I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.

Stephen Chbosky

I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.

Stephen Chbosky

I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three of us. I was in the middle. I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I just remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere

Stella Adler

Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

Stefan Zweig

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

Stefan Zweig

We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone. No algebra of the mind can calculate it, no alchemy of premonition divine it, and it can seldom perceive itself.

Sonia Sotomayor

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

Sophie Kinsella

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.

Thomas Hardy

He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibles of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

Thomas B. Macaulay

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

Tim Cahill

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.

Thomas Lennon

I need to be spontaneous sometimes. Sometimes I find that the little detail or nuance that you add to it that's based on what's happening at the time that's not very rehearsed often ends up feeling like the funniest thing.

Thomas Jefferson

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

Thomas Francis Meagher

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

Thom Gunn

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Raymond Williams

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

Victoria Azarenka

That intensity, that feeling of the battle, heat of the moment: personally, that's what I live for.

Gerard Butler

I love to do films of all shapes and sizes and feelings and genres. So for me to go from Tomb Raider straight into Dear Frankie, there's nothing that excites me more than to keep mixing it up.

Herbert Spencer

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.

Herbert Spencer

Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.

Herbert Spencer

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When you're feeling terrific, notify your face.

Jill Scott

I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.

Jill Scott

I have a few caftans just for lounging purposes. When I want to feel free, it's the closest thing to feeling naked without being naked.

Jill Scott

I'm being all of me, and it feels stupendous. I don't want to leave this feeling.