Famous Quotes & Sayings

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...

Linus Torvalds

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.

Jonathan Safran Foer

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings

Jonathan Safran Foer

There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, "This is worthless. I'm wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this." It happens all the time.

Napoleon Hill

The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind.

Napoleon Hill

ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

Odette Annable

If you ever were bullied, you always remember that feeling.

Oksana Baiul

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

Meher Baba

When a person tells others 'Be good,' he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.

Mel Brooks

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

Mary Pipher

All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't.

Mary Oliver

A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.

Mary Oliver

Attention without feeling--is only a report.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

It seemed inevitable to try to address my feelings about everything that had happened. To a certain degree, it felt cathartic, but it's less cathartic to me than it is illuminating and helping me navigate my own feelings.

Pina Bausch

When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said.

Pierre Corneille

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

Rachel Caine

I have the feeling I’ve been— unpleasant.

Pete Townshend

It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.

Pete Seeger

Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.

Pete Doherty

You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really.

Richard Branson

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.

Swami Vivekananda

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.

Tippi Hedren

To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it.

Robert Adams

When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.

Stevie Nicks

I don't like that [scaring] feeling and I watch the news every day because of it. It's going to be hard to fix all of these problems that seem absolutely unfixable to me.

Sallust

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Roman Polanski

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

Roman Abramovich

My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.

Sally Phillips

I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

Rumi

If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.

Rolf Harris

I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.

Roland Gift

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.