Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willa Ford

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

Willa Cather

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

Wilhelm Reich

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

William S. Burroughs

I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.

Woody Harrelson

I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

Woodrow Wilson

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

Woodrow Wilson

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

Will Self

The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.

Will Self

What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life.

Wes Borland

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.

W. Eugene Smith

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

Zadie Smith

He traced the genealogy of the feeling.

Zora Neale Hurston

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

Zora Neale Hurston

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

Zack Snyder

It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

Zach Galifianakis

I've never been in love... But I imagine it's similar to the feeling you get when you see your waiter arriving with your food

Yuichiro Miura

I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.

William Hazlitt

There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.

Will Smith

When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.

Vincent Van Gogh

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

Vincent Van Gogh

There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.

Virginia Woolf

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

Virginia Woolf

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.

Virginia Woolf

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

Virginia Woolf

...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

William Blake

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

Werner Erhard

I have a lot of feeling for Ron Hubbard. His genius has not been sufficiently acknowledged.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

Salma Hayek

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

Ryan Sheckler

I just personally really enjoy having a clean body. I shower twice a day. I just like feeling clean and feeling smooth.

Jostein Gaarder

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

Kent Beck

I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.