Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Woody Allen

I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.

William Wordsworth

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

William Saroyan

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

William J. Clinton

Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.

William James

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

William James

Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.

William James

Individuality is founded in feeling

William James

Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

William James

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

Sara Bareilles

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

Wil Wheaton

It’s not about what you said. It’s not about what you did. It’s not about what you love. It’s about them feeling bad about themselves.

Saint Francis de Sales

One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.

Tori Amos

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

Tori Amos

Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.

Vera Wang

Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.

Venus Williams

It's a great feeling to have accomplished what I have, but I want to do more.

Vera Farmiga

Music is what our feelings sound like.

Richard Dawkins

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Richard Dawkins

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

Rodrigo Santoro

I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.