Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milan Kundera

The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.

Mara Wilson

I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.

Mara Wilson

I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.

Marcel Proust

One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.

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.

Laura Linney

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!

Lance Armstrong

It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club

Laini Taylor

In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was conspiring in it. It would be easy.

Lisa Kleypas

And there’s one more thing to be aware of ” Cam said with a wintry softness that disguised all hint of feeling. “If you succeed in marrying her we’re not losing a sister. You’re gaining an entire family—who will protect her at any cost.

Johnny Depp

Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that's going on today. So I'm super lucky.

Johnny Depp

I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times.

John Trudell

We're all human beings and we all have feelings. And we all live in this industrial meat grinder where we don't really understand love anymore.

John Trudell

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.

John Travolta

I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.

John Travolta

I probably have some sort of chocolate five times a week. There's definitely a change it does to the chemistry of the body. It's my favorite feeling. I live for it.

John Updike

The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.

John Updike

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

John Sexton

To convey in the print the feeling you experienced when you exposed your film – to walk out of the darkroom and say: ‘This is it, the equivalent of what I saw and felt!’. That’s what it’s all about.

James Joyce

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

James Rosenquist

If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.

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.

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.