Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Sacks

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

Norman Vincent Peale

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.

Emile Zola

From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.

Erasmus Darwin

In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.

Marcel Proust

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Jordyn Wieber

To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.

Jonny Lang

I really enjoy what I do and have been fortunate to pursue basically whatever I'm feeling at the time.

Joni Mitchell

I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.

Kellan Lutz

It's all about the quality of the fabric, how soft it is and feeling comfortable in what you're wearing.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.

Jonathan Safran Foer

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings

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.

Henry Cavill

A lot of the stuff you do as an actor - or I do, because I can't speak for everyone - is not always consciously thought out. A lot of the time, for me, it's actually just feeling stuff, and it happens all in the moment and your body reacts.

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.

George Carlin

You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.

Garth Nix

I certainly have had experiences of a sense of wonder at the world and a feeling that even though it could all be explained rationally, it still feels that there is more to it.

Frank Gehry

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

George Eliot

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

Ray Charles

Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human.

Tom Hiddleston

I wish I hadn't worked so hard; I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me; I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings; I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends; and I wish I had let myself be happier. It's an extraordinary list of getting in your own way, isn't it?

Tom Cruise

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?

Todd Phillips

I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.

Simon van der Meer

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.

James Salter

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

John Keats

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

John Keats

... feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun...