Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Salter

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

Libba Bray

I don't know. Sometimes, I feel nothing, and I'm so afraid. Afraid I'll stop feeling anything at all. I'll just slip away inside myself...I just need to feel something" A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 177, by

Libba Bray

So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

Leslie Mann

What I loved about [The Other Woman] movie was the same thing. It was three women who would never have come together for any other reason except that they had something in common which was this common cause, and that's really the feeling that I wanted this movie to have. It was a huge influence for it.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

Louise Gluck

The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.

Louise Bourgeois

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

The hardest part is speaking in front of my home school -- I'm up there, feeling like I'm about to puke, with butterflies in my stomach, that's the hardest part.

You want to go into each game feeling you have something to prove. But we go into each game wanting to prove something and to show that we want to win.

Henry Rollins

The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.

The smile that illumines the features of beauty, When kindled by virtue, alluring appears; But smiles, tho' alluring, no magic can borrow, To vie with the softness of beauty in tears. The smiles that are sweetest are often deceiving; Too often a mask which the cold-hearted wears; But a tear is the holiest offspring of feeling, And monarchs are weak before beauty in tears.

Malorie Blackman

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.

Malorie Blackman

Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill.

Mandy Patinkin

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

Mallory Ortberg

You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human is that you get to set your own boundaries for whatever reasons you like, without appending a sensible rationale to them.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens , provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.

Jackson Pollock

I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.

Hartley Coleridge

Is love a fancy, or a feeling?

All through the game, we were just thinking, I can't wait for the feeling to come. Every time there was a whistle (at the end), it was tough. We just wished those 45 seconds would go by and we could get out there and celebrate.

Joseph Joubert

All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought

The general feeling is the tech market overextended itself on the upside.

Charles Tillman

This is my third year in the league and it's my first time in first place. It's feeling pretty good. I'm going to savor the moment.

This is my Spring Training. I'm feeling a lot better.

This is a good feeling for us. Every year we haven't been on top of our games going into the tournament, but this year I think we're really rolling and it's great for our confidence.

This has the feeling of seeming to go on forever.

Daniel Radcliffe

This has given me a feeling of confidence, ... which I might not have had otherwise.

Eric Hoffer

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

Eric Braeden

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

The first week, I dwelled on my stats. This week, in the second half, that helped me out. I didn't worry about it. I'm feeling more comfortable every week.

You don't have to be happy about it but just know that other places are feeling the pain much worse than we are.

Emmy Rossum

It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.

James Corden

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

Johnny Winter

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.