Quotes and Sayings about Feeling

 

 

"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Ability, Chance, Eye, Feeling, Mind, Practice, Sense, Sight, Will)

"Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Feeling, Proof, Winter)

"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Feelings, Mankind, Reason)

"He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Life, Country, Feeling, Man, Will)

"I've suffered too much to hide my feelings."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Feelings)

"The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Inferiority, Agitation, Conquest, Feeling)

"To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Inferiority, Agitation, Being, Conquest, Feeling)

"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Inferiority, Expression, Feeling)

"The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Experience, Life, Feelings, Acting, Actor, Choices)

"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"
- Aeschylus
(Related: Feeling, Guest)

"I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Hope, Feeling, Fun, May, Woman)

"My feelings about myself have been terrible."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Feelings)

"A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well."
- Louisa May Alcott
(Related: Feelings, Thoughts)

"When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years."
- Alan Alda
(Related: Time, Facts, Feeling, Thinking, Years)

"The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling."
- Christopher Alexander
(Related: Life, Nature, Feeling)

"Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: People, Feelings, Relationships, World)

"When you read a script, you get a feeling from it."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Feeling)

"It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing."
- Joan Allen
(Related: People, Feeling, Want)

"The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too."
- Paul Allen
(Related: Science, Technology, Feeling, Museums)

"The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best."
- Chris Van Allsburg
(Related: Feeling, Sky)

"I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself."
- Herb Alpert
(Related: Work, Feelings, Jaded)

"We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards."
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
(Related: People, Feelings, Control, Killing, State, Trying, Will)

"Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible."
- Lauren Ambrose
(Related: Love, Son, Thought, Being, Feeling)

"The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Feeling, Names)

"I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Love, Cause, Feeling, Feet, Storms, Walking)

"In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change."
- David Amram
(Related: Change, Music, Feeling, Thinking)

"Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Time, Work, Friend, Being, Empowerment, Feeling, Nothing, Service)

"A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Time, Women, Feeling, Man, Thinking)

"I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special."
- Jennifer Aniston
(Related: Love, Being, Butterflies, Effect, Feeling)

"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty."
- David Antin
(Related: Feeling, Liberty)

"I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth."
- Michelangelo Antonioni
(Related: Society, Feelings, Earth, Man, Prophecy, Saying, Sound, Want)

"For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family."
- Avi Arad
(Related: Family, Feeling, Fighting, Kids, Parents, Violence)

"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."
- Diane Arbus
(Related: Feeling)

"I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Happiness, People, Feelings, Clothes, Confidence)

"It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm."
- John Astin
(Related: People, Feeling, Want)

"It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!"
- Mackenzie Astin
(Related: Feeling)

"The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!"
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Feeling, Trees)

"I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won."
- Ron Atkinson
(Related: Feeling)

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: People, Feeling, Opera)

"I waged war against my feelings."
- John James Audubon
(Related: War, Feelings)

"Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Soul, Heart, Feeling, Man, Play)

"With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away."
- Francis Aungier
(Related: Success, Feeling, Nothing)

"The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too."
- Saint Teresa of Avila
(Related: God, Feeling, Journey)

"It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif."
- Roy Ayers
(Related: Being, Feeling)

"A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice."
- Irving Babbitt
(Related: Feelings, Democracy, Practice)

"I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Feeling)

"Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling."
- John Badham
(Related: Feeling, May)

"He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you."
- Jane Badler
(Related: Love, Environment, Feeling, Order, Right)

"I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Ability, Emotion, Feeling, Holiday, Sound)

"The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Business, Music, Money, Feelings, Energy)

"I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions."
- Oksana Baiul
(Related: Feeling)

"I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness."
- Tom Baker
(Related: Funny, Experience, Darkness, Fans, Feeling, Trying)

"As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Mother, Feelings, Artist, Want)

"In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend."
- Emily Greene Balch
(Related: Feeling, Forget, Mankind, Religious, Spiritual, Thinking, World)

"Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas."
- James M. Baldwin
(Related: Success, Ideas, Failure, Balance, Compromise, Consciousness, Feeling, Rivalry)

"I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world."
- Fairuza Balk
(Related: Love, Feeling, Want, World)

"Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: Death, Feeling)

"Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down."
- Lester Bangs
(Related: Society, People, Feeling, Pretty, Running, Sense)

"I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing."
- Peter Banks
(Related: Fact, Feeling, Now, Will)

"There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling."
- Peter Banks
(Related: Feeling, Sound, Will)

"I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: Feeling, Running)

"I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: Environment, Feeling, Trying)

"I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable."
- Javier Bardem
(Related: Energy, English, Feeling, Trying)

"I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better."
- Bob Barker
(Related: Possibility, Animals, Concern, Energy, Feeling, Now, Years)

"Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this."
- Clive Barker
(Related: Experience, Anxiety, Feeling)

"Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it."
- Amelia E. Barr
(Related: Science, Knowledge, Greatness, Feeling, Reason, Spiritual)

"Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?"
- Roseanne Barr
(Related: Anger, Time, Children, Experts, Feeling)

"A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy."
- Luis Barragan
(Related: Feeling, Garden, Joy, Serenity)

"Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot."
- Bernard Barton
(Related: Thoughts, Chance, Earth, Fancy, Feeling)

"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."
- John Barton
(Related: Feelings, Order, Sentimentality)

"Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole."
- Jacques Barzun
(Related: Feelings, Idea, Deep, Idealism, Nothing)

"Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous."
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
(Related: Thought, People, Famous, Feeling, Heroes, Romantic)

"One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not."
- Orlando A. Battista
(Related: Experience, Enemy, Feeling)

"As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Life, Feelings, Heart, Ecstasy, Horror)

"Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors."
- Jean Baudrillard
(Related: Love, Feelings, Courage, Affectation, Cowardice, Measure, Play)

"I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
- L. Frank Baum
(Related: Feeling)

"Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman."
- Vicki Baum
(Related: Feeling, Pity, Woman)

"Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on."
- Bob Beauprez
(Related: Death, Feeling, May)

"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
- Simone de Beauvoir
(Related: Fear, Being, Feeling, Homosexuality, Man, Obligation, Restraint, Woman)

"Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can."
- Martha Beck
(Related: Eyes, Feeling, Meeting, Words, World)

"Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld."
- Martha Beck
(Related: Beauty, Being, Eye, Feeling, May, Mind)

"And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words."
- Ulrich Beck
(Related: Feeling, Hate, Inequality, Injustice, Words, World)

"We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it."
- Clive Bell
(Related: Art, Work, Feeling)

"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
- E. T. Bell
(Related: Art, Fitness, Feeling, Mathematicians, Mathematics, Now, Past, Sense, Simplicity, Usefulness)

"With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Confidence, Feeling)

"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."
- Robert Benchley
(Related: Feeling, Man, Woman)

"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble."
- Walter Benjamin
(Related: Life, Character, Feeling, Living, Suicide, Trouble, Worth)

"I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible."
- Robert Benton
(Related: Feeling)

"Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection."
- Alban Berg
(Related: Music, Talent, Knowledge, Enthusiasm, Perception, Composers, Feeling, Reflection, Result, Study)

"I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward."
- Michael Bergin
(Related: Feeling)

"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
- Ingmar Bergman
(Related: Art, Music, Feelings, Dream, Conscience, Deep, Film)

"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."
- Henri Bergson
(Related: Life, Creation, Feeling, Joy)

"He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor."
- Sarah Bernhardt
(Related: Anger, Actor, Being, Feeling, Living, Sense, Will, Word)

"Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff."
- Corbin Bernsen
(Related: Feelings)

"When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays."
- Elmer Bernstein
(Related: Feelings, Alienation, Today)

"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world."
- Leonard Bernstein
(Related: Life, Artist, Feeling, Key, Mystery, Right, Will, World)

"I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy."
- Michael Biehn
(Related: Career, Feeling)

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Mother, Feeling)

"Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Feeling, Laughter)

"I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves."
- Brad Bird
(Related: Feeling, Space)

"To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Feeling)

"When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag."
- Ritchie Blackmore
(Related: Day, End, Feeling, Waiting, Years)

"A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent."
- Alice Stone Blackwell
(Related: Feeling, Land, Woman)

"I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse."
- David Blaine
(Related: Hope, Feeling, Wonder)

"God knows, I never want to hurt someone's feelings."
- Selma Blair
(Related: God, Feelings, Hurt, Want)

"We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind."
- H. P. Blavatsky
(Related: Thought, Act, Emotion, Feeling, Mind, Will)

"It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it."
- Drew Bledsoe
(Related: Feeling, World)

"Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul."
- Stella Blum
(Related: Soul, People, Feelings, Fashion, Hate, Quick, Vanity)

"In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold."
- Nellie Bly
(Related: Food, Doctors, Feeling, Kitchen, Nurses)

"In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party."
- Franz Boas
(Related: Feeling, France, Party, Years)

"Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them."
- Louise Bogan
(Related: Heart, Feeling, Innocence, Violence)

"Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times."
- David Bohm
(Related: Society, Thought, People, Feelings, Body, State)

"Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale."
- David Bohm
(Related: Communication, Feeling, World)

"My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc."
- David Bohm
(Related: Feelings, Language, Mind, Order, State)

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Being, Chance, Feeling, Question, Theory)

"Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover."
- Giotto di Bondone
(Related: Dreams, Feelings, Heart, Pleasure, Principles)

"I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Time, Feeling)

"I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained."
- John Bonham
(Related: Time, People, Feeling, Hate, Space)

"I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is."
- Bobby Bonilla
(Related: Feeling)

"U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone."
- Bono
(Related: Feelings)

"I was feeling well enough to eat the pears."
- Lizzie Andrew Borden
(Related: Feeling)

"Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions."
- David Borenstein
(Related: Feelings, Emotions, Man)

"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."
- Ralph Boston
(Related: Country, Feeling)

"The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed."
- Nelson Boswell
(Related: Success, Feeling, First, Succeed)

"The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect."
- Elizabeth Bowen
(Related: Feeling, Self)

"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do."
- Elizabeth Bowen
(Related: Art, Feeling)

"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."
- Elizabeth Bowen
(Related: Enemies, Feeling, Jealousy)

"Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character."
- Andrew Coyle Bradley
(Related: Feelings, Idea, Character, Conformity, Order, Want)

"A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person."
- Eric Braeden
(Related: Love, Feelings, First)

"I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person."
- Eric Braeden
(Related: Love, Being, Children, Feeling, Respect, Want)

"By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout."
- Jo Brand
(Related: Bed, Drinking, Drugs, Feeling, Reading)

"I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour."
- Georg Brandes
(Related: Feeling)

"Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me."
- Georg Brandes
(Related: Feeling, Mind)

"I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Business, Feeling)

"Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it."
- Eva Braun
(Related: Feeling, Nothing, Now, Today)

"No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily."
- Andre Breton
(Related: Life, Feeling, Freedom, Sense)

"The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires."
- Dorothy Corkville Briggs
(Related: Breeding, Comparisons, Feeling, Jealousy)

"I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring."
- David Brin
(Related: Feeling, Writing)

"The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers."
- John Britton
(Related: Life, Feelings, Strangers, Years)

"Better to be without logic than without feeling."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Feeling, Logic)

"True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Enthusiasm, Feeling)

"What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history."
- Avery Brooks
(Related: History, Being, Feeling, Thinking)

"If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment."
- Herb Brooks
(Related: Accomplishment, Feeling, Pride)

"My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee."
- Alton Brown
(Related: Committee, Feeling)

"If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present."
- Les Brown
(Related: Feelings, Ability, May, Past, Present)

"I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'"
- Craig Bruce
(Related: Life, People, Europe, Feeling, Today, Weapons, Wonder)

"There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people."
- Gavin Bryars
(Related: Music, People, Feelings)

"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings."
- Pearl S. Buck
(Related: Feelings, Right)

"I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger than any of that."
- Lindsey Buckingham
(Related: Feelings, Day, Help)

"I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me."
- Betty Buckley
(Related: People, Feelings, Culture, Word, Words)

"I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
(Related: Being, Feeling, Satisfaction)

"When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear."
- Buddha
(Related: Feelings, Fear, Evil, Listening, Pleasure)

"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too."
- Frederick Buechner
(Related: Peace, Knowledge, Compassion, Feeling, Joy, Skin)

"I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Life, Love, Feeling)

"I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!"
- Gisele Bundchen
(Related: Love, Feeling, Want)

"When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation."
- Wilfred Burchett
(Related: Building, Feeling, Man)

"A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix."
- Delta Burke
(Related: Women, Feeling, Want)

"I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid."
- Delta Burke
(Related: Feeling)

"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Imagination, Men, Feelings, Act, Influence)

"I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams."
- Augusten Burroughs
(Related: Dreams, People, Alcohol, Childhood, Drugs, Feeling, Lonely)

"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
- John Burroughs
(Related: History, Feeling)

"She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings."
- Ellen Burstyn
(Related: Feelings, Addiction)

"Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."
- Robert Burton
(Related: Faith, Feelings, Error, Illusion, Will)

"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn."
- Leo Buscaglia
(Related: Love, Apathy, Feeling, Giving, Hate)

"When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Control, Feeling, Hearing, Losing, Production, Talking, Trees)

"I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Society, People, Feeling)

"No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Time, Thought, Feeling, Weapons)

"If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Feeling)

"I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black."
- Octavia Butler
(Related: Experience, Time, Family, Being, Feeling, Research, Writing)

"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Life, Music, Feeling, Instinct)

"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Morality, Country, Custom, Feeling)

"As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others."
- Lord Byron
(Related: Nature, Feeling, Passion)

"Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart."
- Abraham Cahan
(Related: Heart, Conceit, Envy, Fight)

"I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen."
- John Cale
(Related: Feeling)

"I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting."
- Harry Callahan
(Related: Life, People, Feelings, Adventure, Photography, Worth)

"To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself."
- Melvin Calvin
(Related: Feelings, Words)

"There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage."
- Neve Campbell
(Related: Feeling, Sadness)

"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Absurdity, Feeling, Man)

"Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives."
- Vincent Canby
(Related: Experience, Events, Feeling, Fiction, Importance, Living)

"From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling."
- Henry Charles Carey
(Related: Feeling, State, Trade)

"You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar."
- George Carlin
(Related: Eating, Feeling)

"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Science, Feeling, Wrong)

"Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul."
- George Carman
(Related: Soul, Feelings, Confusion, Drinks)

"Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families."
- Russ Carnahan
(Related: Americans, Burden, Energy, Feeling, Will)

"Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Habit, Energy, Feeling, Present, Waste)

"It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after."
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
(Related: Feeling, Song, Want)

"As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time."
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
(Related: Time, Wisdom, Career, Feeling, Freedom, Now, Years)

"You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing."
- Emily Carr
(Related: Feeling, Right, Will)

"That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values."
- Tia Carrere
(Related: Family, Soul, Heart, Values, Disney, Feeling)

"Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character."
- Helena Bonham Carter
(Related: Character, Feeling, Nagging)

"No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me."
- Helena Bonham Carter
(Related: Change, People, Drama, Feeling, Fight)

"There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well."
- Vince Carter
(Related: Feelings, Hurt, Saying)

"I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Knowledge, Existence, Feeling, Giving)

"It depends on how Johnny's feeling... If we go back on the road, we will go together. I'll go where he goes, and he'll go where I go."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Feeling, Road, Will)

"For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of."
- Catherine II
(Related: Feeling)

"It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds."
- Edgar Cayce
(Related: Thought, Deeds, Feeling, Universe)

"An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all."
- Paul Cezanne
(Related: Art, Feeling)

"I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image."
- Michael Chabon
(Related: Feeling)

"I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang."
- Richard Chamberlain
(Related: Feelings, Being, Hurt, Lies)

"On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary."
- Whittaker Chambers
(Related: Feeling, Night, Pleasure, Road)

"This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it."
- Adelbert von Chamisso
(Related: Eyes, Feeling, Horror, Man, Manners)

"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."
- Chanakya
(Related: God, Soul, Feelings, Temple, Idols, Present)

"It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling."
- Jung Chang
(Related: Evil, Excitement, Feeling, Years)

"The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings."
- Jung Chang
(Related: People, Feelings, Acting, Fashion, Mourning, Tears)

"I was a master at keeping my feelings in."
- Mark David Chapman
(Related: Feelings)

"We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived."
- Tracy Chapman
(Related: Feeling, Thinking)

"I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment."
- Brandi Chastain
(Related: Sports, Mom, Son, Environment, Feeling, Kids, Now, Parents, Saying, Soccer, Want)

"And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Men, Feelings, Being, Perspective, Talking)

"So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked."
- Lee Child
(Related: Feelings, Desperation, Entertainment, First, Job, World)

"Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days."
- Thomas Haden Church
(Related: Winning, Feeling, Pretty)

"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Trust, Hope, Confidence, Feeling, Mind)

"Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor."
- John Bates Clark
(Related: Feelings, Strength, Loyalty, May, Socialism, State)

"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals."
- Kenneth Clark
(Related: Art, Feeling, Morals, Shadow)

"I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!"
- Camille Claudel
(Related: Bed, Cause, Feeling, Fire, Night, Walking)

"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play."
- Beverly Cleary
(Related: Mother, Father, Feelings, Children, Play, Want)

"I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ."
- Kate Clinton
(Related: People, Feeling, Mind, Want)

"I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well."
- Rosemary Clooney
(Related: Feeling, Joy, Responsibility, Singing)

"It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings."
- Kurt Cobain
(Related: Feelings, Fish)

"What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people."
- Thad Cochran
(Related: People, Commitment, Compassion, Feeling, President, Words)

"I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling."
- Joe Cocker
(Related: Love, Feeling, Songs)

"I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not."
- Joe Cocker
(Related: People, Control, Crowds, Feeling)

"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Music, Feelings)

"To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable."
- Sebastian Coe
(Related: Feeling, Gold)

"If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart."
- J. M. Coetzee
(Related: Feelings, Heart, Thoughts, Animals, Consciousness, May, Mind, Project, Temptation, Writing)

"The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego."
- Andrew Cohen
(Related: Being, Ego, Excitement, Feeling, Woman)

"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Feeling)

"I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself."
- Nat King Cole
(Related: Movies, Feeling, Sight)

"I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing."
- Ornette Coleman
(Related: Body, Conversation, Feeling, Now, Present, Saying, Talking, Thinking)

"A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Feeling, Man, Old, Woman)

"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel."
- John Churton Collins
(Related: Life, Feeling, Mistakes, Thinking)

"Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us."
- Judy Collins
(Related: Music, Love, Feelings, Being)

"I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live."
- Judy Collins
(Related: Feelings, Inspiration, Being, Day)

"I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart."
- Judy Collins
(Related: Poetry, Feelings, Heart, Deep, Songs, Writing)

"I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer."
- Stephen Collins
(Related: Experience, Feelings, Chance, Giving, Religious)

"A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear."
- Carlo Collodi
(Related: Appetite, Feeling, Hunger, Moments)

"My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd."
- Arthur Holly Compton
(Related: Attitude, Feeling, First)

"A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit."
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
(Related: Change, Credit, Feeling)

"Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution."
- Bill Condon
(Related: Feelings, Moments, Persecution)

"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
- Confucius
(Related: Men, Feelings, Respect)

"Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance."
- Robert Conklin
(Related: Change, Thought, Feeling)

"That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about."
- Jennifer Connelly
(Related: Trust, Work, People, Idea, Feeling, Project, Will)

"People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole."
- Jennifer Connelly
(Related: People, Feeling, Hunger)

"Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: Love, Feelings, Open, Resignation)

"I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing."
- Barbara Cook
(Related: Feeling, Want)

"People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster."
- Alistair Cooke
(Related: People, America, Country, First)

"The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own."
- Alistair Cooke
(Related: Friend, Compliment, Feeling, Right)

"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."
- Charles Horton Cooley
(Related: Country, Dependence, Feeling, Pity)

"The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Time, Feelings, Deeds, Man, Sensibility, Talking)

"I have often said that there is no cause for feeling disturbed at being misrepresented by the press. It would be only when they began to say things detrimental to me which were true that I should feel alarm."
- John Coolidge
(Related: Being, Cause, Feeling, Press)

"They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory."
- James F. Cooper
(Related: Nature, Feeling, Man, Maxim, Morals, Popular, Theory)

"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."
- Aaron Copland
(Related: Feelings, Being, Now, Today, Want)

"Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show."
- Rob Corddry
(Related: Feeling, Tension)

"I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep."
- Marie Corelli
(Related: Deep, Feeling, Will)

"My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Feelings, Authority, Reason)

"I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again."
- Kevin Costner
(Related: Feelings)

"I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings."
- Marion Cotillard
(Related: Feelings, Act, Emotions)

"If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Feeling, Oil)

"Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Feeling, Uniqueness)

"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Feeling, Lonely, Nothing)

"There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Time, Feeling, Laziness, World)

"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: People, Feeling)

"I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on."
- Jim Courier
(Related: Feeling, Open, Tennis)

"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."
- Norman Cousins
(Related: Death, Life, Men, Awareness, Feeling, Glory, Man, Pain, Tragedy)

"I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling."
- David Coverdale
(Related: Feeling, Name)

"I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience."
- David Coverdale
(Related: Feelings, Heart)

"That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together."
- Noel Coward
(Related: War, Strength, Feeling)

"I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them."
- Deborah Cox
(Related: People, Favorite, Feeling, First, Leading, Pressure, Responsibility, Songs)

"If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good."
- Wayne Coyne
(Related: Company, Feeling, Publishing, Song)

"Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride."
- Larry Craig
(Related: Being, Feeling)

"The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door."
- Robert Creeley
(Related: Company, Feeling, Irony)

"Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable."
- Stafford Cripps
(Related: Feeling, Solution)

"The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s."
- Peter Criss
(Related: Time, Feeling, Magic)

"Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes."
- Jon Crosby
(Related: Being, Feeling, Fish, Pain, Song, Songs, Water)

"We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited."
- Jon Crosby
(Related: Audiences, Feeling)

"I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again."
- Jon Crosby
(Related: Feeling, Longing, Song)

"That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing."
- Sheryl Crow
(Related: Feeling, Freedom, Marketing, Materialism, Open, Possibilities)

"Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings."
- Sheryl Crow
(Related: Experience, Music, Feelings)

"Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?"
- Tom Cruise
(Related: Embarrassment, Feeling, Tomorrow)

"Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on."
- Kaley Cuoco
(Related: Life, Feeling, Rest, Want)

"And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use."
- Jamie Lee Curtis
(Related: Feeling, Order)

"I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves."
- Jamie Lee Curtis
(Related: Age, Women, Children, Feeling, Self, Shame)

"Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make."
- Puff Daddy
(Related: Life, People, Opportunity, Control, Circumstances, Decisions, Feeling)

"I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling."
- Jim Dale
(Related: Funny, People, Feeling, Insecurity, Laughter, Now)

"It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you."
- Jim Dale
(Related: Feeling, Fishing)

"It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen."
- Johnny Damon
(Related: Leader, People, Feeling, Leaders)

"If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche."
- Ted Danson
(Related: Body, Feeling, Solution, Will)

"On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away."
- Edwidge Danticat
(Related: Time, Being, Feeling, Ideology, Play, World)

"It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work."
- James D'arcy
(Related: Home, Work, Day, Evening, Feeling, Job)

"My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game."
- Duffy Daugherty
(Related: End, Feeling, Superstition)

"If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny."
- Larry David
(Related: Funny, Truth, Feeling)

"If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here."
- Eric Davis
(Related: Feeling, Pressure)

"His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today."
- Marc Davis
(Related: Career, Disney, Feeling, Name, Today)

"America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us."
- Patti Davis
(Related: Father, America, Country, Feeling, Illness, Support, Years)

"I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again."
- Richard H. Davis
(Related: Feelings, Now)

"Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Life, Dependence, Feeling, Man, Supernatural, World)

"I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics."
- Danielle Dax
(Related: Experience, History, People, Feeling, Opinion, State, Want)

"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."
- Claude Debussy
(Related: Feeling)

"I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Achievement, Feeling)

"I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: People, Feelings, Pretty)

"I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do."
- Jonathan Demme
(Related: Feelings, Care, Chance, Deals, Film)

"I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Being, Feeling)

"It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Women, People, Feelings, Provocative, Wonder)

"Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book."
- Anita Desai
(Related: Motivation, Disappointment, Feeling)

"And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized."
- Jackie DeShannon
(Related: Feeling, Tears, World)

"I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."
- Princess Diana
(Related: Age, Love, People, Day, Disease, Feeling, Want, World)

"The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved."
- Princess Diana
(Related: Age, People, Day, Disease, Feeling)

"I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: Love, Feeling, Flirting, Fun, Man, Open, Trying)

"Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling."
- Leonardo DiCaprio
(Related: Being, Feeling)

"I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding."
- Bill Dickey
(Related: Compliments, Feeling)

"The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity."
- James Dickey
(Related: Sex, Deep, Feeling, Intimacy)

"Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel."
- James Dickey
(Related: Being, Feeling, Mind, State)

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Feeling, Nerves, Pain)

"We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves."
- Denis Diderot
(Related: Feeling, Memory, Senses)

"My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film."
- Vin Diesel
(Related: Faith, Feeling, Film, First)

"Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors."
- Edsger Dijkstra
(Related: Feeling, Mathematicians, Self, Thinking, Tradition)

"In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects."
- Wilhelm Dilthey
(Related: Life, Feeling, Thinking)

"Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."
- Walt Disney
(Related: Feelings, Ideas, Children, Ideals)

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Truth, Feeling)

"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Sympathy, Feelings, Thoughts, Habits, Nations, Poor)

"I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities."
- Larry Dixon
(Related: Time, People, Feeling, Training)

"The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding."
- Willie Dixon
(Related: Life, Inspiration, Facts, Feeling, Song, Understanding, Words)

"My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart."
- Cory Doctorow
(Related: Feelings, Pretty)

"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
- E. L. Doctorow
(Related: Being, Fact, Feeling, Writing)

"If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay."
- Robert J. Dole
(Related: Feeling, Nothing, Senate)

"I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time."
- Phil Donahue
(Related: Time, Feelings, Silly, Waste)

"The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water."
- Vincent D'Onofrio
(Related: Feeling, Water)

"The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do."
- Mark Van Doren
(Related: People, Feelings, Job, Loss, World)

"That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled."
- Stephen Dorff
(Related: Success, Control, Being, Danger, Feeling, Magic, Now)

"I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea."
- Kyan Douglas
(Related: Idea, Feeling, Plants)

"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."
- Rita Dove
(Related: Mother, Father, Feeling, Learning, Parents)

"Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely."
- Rita Dove
(Related: Feeling)

"Time is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling."
- John Draper
(Related: Time, Thought, Feeling, Nothing)

"Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes."
- Theodore Dreiser
(Related: Feelings, Shadows, Words)

"I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe."
- Julia Louis Dreyfus
(Related: Time, Feeling, Guilt, Universe)

"My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball."
- David Duchovny
(Related: Life, Feelings, Being, Brotherhood, Focus, Future, Past, Sense)

"You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children."
- David Duchovny
(Related: Food, People, Children, Feeling)

"When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff."
- Hilary Duff
(Related: Music, Being, Crowds, Energy, Feeling, Kids, Night, Word)

"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Feelings, Language, Poets, Trying, Writing)

"I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes."
- Karen Duffy
(Related: Eyes, Feeling, Feet)

"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."
- Alexandre Dumas
(Related: Despair, Feeling, Man)

"If someone is expressing everything I am feeling at the moment, it's probably Jon Stewart. I hear him and think, Yeah!"
- Sandy Duncan
(Related: Feeling)

"But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Time, Work, Feeling, Party)

"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."
- Marguerite Duras
(Related: Happiness, Feeling, Man)

"There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling."
- Fred Durst
(Related: Anxiety, Feeling)

"I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else."
- Eliza Dushku
(Related: Care, Feeling)

"You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Feeling, Play)

"There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Feeling, Nothing)

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."
- Henry Van Dyke
(Related: Gratitude, Feeling, Kindness, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving)

"I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Thought, Feeling)

"Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers."
- Charles Eastman
(Related: Time, People, Affection, Feeling, Guests, Strangers)

"Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist."
- Hermann Ebbinghaus
(Related: Time, Feelings, Ideas, Consciousness, Present, Sensations, states)

"Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive."
- Richard Eberhart
(Related: Death, Feelings, Heart, Mankind, Now, Poems)

"The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."
- Umberto Eco
(Related: Humor, Perception, Feeling)

"I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there."
- Stefan Edberg
(Related: Time, Feeling)

"I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey."
- Kenneth Edmonds
(Related: People, Feelings, Want)

"I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling."
- Adrian Edmondson
(Related: Truth, Feeling, Popular)

"Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language."
- John Edward
(Related: Energy, Feeling, Hearing, Information, Language)

"The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately."
- John Edward
(Related: Energy, Feeling, Hearing, Information)

"I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!"
- Zac Efron
(Related: Nature)

"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Appearance, Discovery, Feeling, Intuition, Laws, Lying, Order)

"If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity."
- Julie Nixon Eisenhower
(Related: Politics, Feeling, Hate, Self)

"It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you."
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
(Related: Character, Feeling)

"I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it."
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
(Related: Success, Being, Feeling)

"I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident."
- Carmen Electra
(Related: Love, Control, Feeling, Man)

"It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing."
- Jenna Elfman
(Related: Home, Character, Feeling)

"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."
- George Eliot
(Related: People, Feeling)

"To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion."
- George Eliot
(Related: Feeling, Security)

"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with."
- George Eliot
(Related: Effect, Embarrassment, Feeling, Intimacy)

"The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all."
- T. S. Eliot
(Related: Business, Poetry, Feelings, Emotions)

"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
- T. S. Eliot
(Related: Poetry, Time, Feelings, Being, May)

"I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young."
- Kim Elizabeth
(Related: Feelings, Thoughts, Emotions, Fantasy, Horror, Word)

"We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today."
- Albert Ellis
(Related: Change, People, Feeling, Past, Thinking, Today)

"I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness."
- Henry Ellis
(Related: Happiness, Darkness, Feeling, Fight, Musicians, Satan)

"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
- Ben Elton
(Related: Sympathy, Feeling, Resentment, Victims)

"Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real."
- Ethan Embry
(Related: Love, Doubt, Feeling, Forget)

"If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Work, Feeling, Want, Years)

"There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'."
- Eminem
(Related: Feeling)

"Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own."
- Nora Ephron
(Related: Men, Feelings)

"The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Delusion, Entertainment, Feeling, May, Meaning)

"Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators."
- Richard Ernst
(Related: Time, Artist, Feeling, Usefulness)

"Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling."
- Bill Evans
(Related: People, Bugs, Children, Feeling, Jazz, Reason, Words)

"Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them."
- Richard L. Evans
(Related: Children, Feeling, Will)

"Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts."
- Walker Evans
(Related: Feelings, Thoughts, Artist, Eye, Reason)

"When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope."
- Adele Faber
(Related: Feelings, Strength, Reality, Service)

"Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity."
- Jean Henri Fabre
(Related: Absence, Appearance, Feeling, Ignorance, Learning, Merit, Sincerity)

"Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again."
- Siobhan Fahey
(Related: Life, Feeling, Years)

"The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs."
- Marianne Faithfull
(Related: Feelings, Songs)

"I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow."
- Agnetha Faltskog
(Related: Feeling, Newspapers, Snow, Winter)

"I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last."
- Frances Farmer
(Related: God, Time, Day, Feeling, Night, Sun, Water)

"But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God."
- Frances Farmer
(Related: God, Father, Children, Cleanliness, Feeling)

"When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Feelings, Care, Man)

"Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable."
- Peter Farrelly
(Related: Actors, Confidence, Feeling, Stress, Tension, Want)

"And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously."
- Rainer W. Fassbinder
(Related: Feelings)

"But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year's season."
- Roger Federer
(Related: Feeling)

"Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling."
- Edna Ferber
(Related: Christmas, Feeling)

"But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know."
- Enzo Ferrari
(Related: Time, Feeling)

"But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Time, Feeling, Living)

"The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Quality, Feelings, Song, Songs, Words, Writing)

"It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Feelings)

"I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience."
- Debbi Fields
(Related: Experience, Business, Happiness, Feeling, Job, Joy)

"Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Feeling, Moments)

"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Distrust, Feeling)

"For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not."
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Related: Poetry, Control, Feeling, Language)

"But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell."
- Howard Finster
(Related: Art, Work, Criticism, Feeling, Painting)

"My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring."
- Geoffrey Fisher
(Related: Feelings, Holidays, Sight)

"Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?"
- John Fiske
(Related: Day, Feeling, Wine)

"None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings."
- Ric Flair
(Related: Feelings, Hurt)

"One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form."
- Gustave Flaubert
(Related: Feeling, Nothing)

"Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program."
- Peggy Fleming
(Related: Music, Feeling, Want)

"Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right."
- Louise Fletcher
(Related: Life, Time, Feelings, Care, Fact, Joy, Killing, Right, Wrong)

"Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before."
- Ben Folds
(Related: Feeling, Now)

"It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."
- Betty Ford
(Related: God, Children, Feeling, Old, Years)

"It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."
- Betty Ford
(Related: God, Children, Feeling, Old, Years)

"I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny."
- Lita Ford
(Related: Blood, Feeling, Play)

"The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me."
- Willa Ford
(Related: Being, Feeling)

"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization."
- Richard Foreman
(Related: Civilization, Expression, Feeling, Play, Twilight)

"More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted."
- Guy Forget
(Related: Court, Feeling, Memories)

"I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Experience, Life, Women, Deals, Feeling, Man, Multiplicity, Play)

"I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are."
- Robert Forster
(Related: Feeling, Now)

"I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: People, Actor, Care, Deep, Feeling)

"My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family."
- Jeff Foxworthy
(Related: Family, Wife, Effort, Feeling, Kids)

"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'"
- Jeff Foxworthy
(Related: Family, Feeling, Royalty, State, World)

"For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings."
- Otto Frank
(Related: Feelings, Idea, Thoughts)

"I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again."
- Arthur Freed
(Related: Feeling, Rain, Singing)

"Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there."
- Ace Frehley
(Related: Feeling, May, Play)

"I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it."
- Ace Frehley
(Related: Music, Work, Feeling, Makeup)

"I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first."
- Dawn French
(Related: Experience, Life, Biography, Feeling, First, Lies)

"It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost."
- Anna Freud
(Related: Mother, Feelings, Children, Emotions)

"The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn."
- Lucian Freud
(Related: Feeling, May, Nothing, Sensations)

"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Life, Success, Mother, Confidence, Feeling, Man)

"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Life, Mother, Favorite, Feeling, Man)

"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."
- Anna Friel
(Related: Mother, Being, Empowerment, Feeling, Forget, Pain, Sleep, Vocabulary)

"There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting."
- Fred Frith
(Related: Life, Feeling, Perspective)

"Chris Cutler was kind enough to offer his company as an umbrella, so now I can have all my back catalogue under one roof as it were, and it has the same feeling as with Daniel; this is a matter between friends rather than businessmen."
- Fred Frith
(Related: Company, Feeling, Friends, Now)

"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue."
- Erich Fromm
(Related: Virtue, Envy, Feeling)

"And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old."
- John Frusciante
(Related: Time, Being, Feeling, Guitar, Old, Years)

"I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music."
- John Frusciante
(Related: Music, Feelings, Ability, Play)

"I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant."
- J. William Fulbright
(Related: War, People, Feeling, President, Vietnam)

"The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends."
- J. William Fulbright
(Related: Power, Cause, Difficulties, Excess, Feeling, Results, Wrong)

"I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression."
- Margaret Fuller
(Related: Feeling)

"Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: People, Books, Feeling)

"It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending."
- Christopher Gadsden
(Related: Thought, Feelings, May, Will)

"Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that."
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
(Related: Life, Feeling)

"The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings."
- Victor Garber
(Related: Feelings, Ability)

"You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people."
- Judy Garland
(Related: People, Feeling, World)

"My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling."
- Elizabeth Gaskell
(Related: Heart, Feeling, Grief, Night, Nothing, Sense, Sleep, Waking)

"Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
(Related: Values, Feeling, Hatred)

"Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
(Related: Inferiority, Feeling)

"Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar.""
- William E. Geist
(Related: Feelings)

"I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling."
- Geronimo
(Related: People, Feeling, Living, Now, Sleep, Sun, Trees)

"I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Change, Family, Love, Feeling)

"As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back."
- Maurice Gibb
(Related: Trust, Wife, Feelings, Winning, Appreciation, Children, Now)

"As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness."
- Robin Gibb
(Related: Anger, Despair, Dying, Feeling)

"Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity."
- Edward Gibbon
(Related: Feelings, Fanaticism, Humanity)

"Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear."
- Billy Gibbons
(Related: Fear, Feeling)

"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."
- Roland Gift
(Related: Success, Failure, Company, Feeling, Managers)

"I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation."
- Carol Gilligan
(Related: People, Conversation, Feeling, Thinking)

"But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: History, Power, Feeling, Light, Reason)

"There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing."
- Greg Ginn
(Related: Music, Power, Feeling, Pretty, Punk)

"I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety."
- David Ginola
(Related: Action, Feeling, Safety, Weekend, Will)

"Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic."
- William E. Gladstone
(Related: Men, Mistake, Strength, Argument, Feeling, Logic, Mind)

"I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized."
- Tom Glazer
(Related: Money, Feelings, Brotherhood, Deep, Humanity, Song)

"Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?"
- George Gobel
(Related: Feeling, World)

"I hope that they enjoy the movie. Don't be critical. Don't expect to get the same feelings you got when you watched the series when you were 10 years old. Let your kids see it and experience it on their own."
- Mark Goddard
(Related: Experience, Feelings, Hope, Kids, Old, Years)

"I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place."
- Arthur Godfrey
(Related: Feeling, Running)

"It's really a good feeling to know that we put this up there, that it's working, that all these people's plans that worked so hard came together and things fit and we've got a real space station."
- Linda M. Godwin
(Related: People, Feeling, Space)

"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Feelings, Heart, Earth, Possession)

"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures."
- Vincent Van Gogh
(Related: Nature, Feeling, Language, Reality)

"A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels."
- Andy Goldsworthy
(Related: Feelings, Ideas, Simplicity)

"When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions."
- Daniel Goleman
(Related: Life, Emotions, Feeling)

"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."
- Paul Goodman
(Related: Goal, Enjoyment, Feeling)

"Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people."
- Dexter Gordon
(Related: Music, Dreams, People, Feelings, Beginning, Jazz, Living)

"I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it."
- Ryan Gosling
(Related: Being, Comedy, Entertainment, Feeling)

"I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver."
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar
(Related: Feeling, Losing)

"In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony."
- Juan Goytisolo
(Related: Faith, Society, Feelings, Hope, Beliefs, Harmony, Religious, Writer)

"I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way."
- Lauren Graham
(Related: Opportunity, Care, Feeling, Ownership, Voice)

"If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well."
- Amy Grant
(Related: Faith, Feelings, Today, Years)

"Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain."
- Anne Grant
(Related: Feeling, Grief, Loss, Pain)

"It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy."
- Lee Grant
(Related: Women, Feeling, Man)

"I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled."
- Richard E. Grant
(Related: Control, Feeling, Production, Theatre, Writing)

"All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner."
- John Gray
(Related: Men, Women, Love, Feelings, Blame, Hurt, Needs)

"For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of."
- Catherine the Great
(Related: Feeling)

"I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you."
- Benny Green
(Related: People, Feelings, Intimacy, Will)

"Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big."
- Kate Greenaway
(Related: Feeling, Living, Wonder)

"I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall."
- Bruce Greenwood
(Related: Time, Feeling, Film, Instinct, Thinking, Writing)

"I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on."
- Jonny Greenwood
(Related: Work, Feeling, Old, Reason, Work ethic)

"I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling."
- Rachel Griffiths
(Related: Feeling)

"My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call."
- Cathy Guisewite
(Related: Mother, Feelings, Eating, Kitchen, Sharing, Waiting, Writing, Wrong)

"Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976."
- Cathy Guisewite
(Related: Humor, Time, Women, Feelings, First, Pretty, Woman)

"Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help."
- Thom Gunn
(Related: Poetry, Deep, Feeling, Help, Language)

"I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years."
- David Guterson
(Related: Time, Feeling, State, Years)

"Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world."
- Thomas Guthrie
(Related: Feeling, Now, World)

"A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it."
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
(Related: Being, Feeling, Opinion)

"I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Being, Feeling, Post)

"What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling."
- Corey Haim
(Related: Kiss, Blood, Feeling, Kissing)

"I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon."
- Corey Haim
(Related: Feelings, Habit, Thoughts, Learning, Trying, Writing)

"David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music."
- Eddie Van Halen
(Related: Music, Home, Idea, Successful, Feeling, Song, Songs)

"I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity."
- John Hall
(Related: Thought, Hope, Feeling, Freedom, Speech)

"I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider."
- Lasse Hallstrom
(Related: Being, Feeling, Pretty)

"Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art."
- Lawrence Halprin
(Related: Art, Work, Talent, Feeling, Now)

"The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it."
- Lawrence Halprin
(Related: Feeling, Hearing, Senses)

"He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation."
- Margaret Halsey
(Related: Character, Feeling, Profession)

"There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else."
- Pete Hamill
(Related: Women, Country, Disasters, Feeling, Football, Politicians)

"I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it."
- Scott Hamilton
(Related: People, Performance, Feeling)

"That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war."
- Jupiter Hammon
(Related: War, Feelings, Liberty, May)

"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."
- Lionel Hampton
(Related: Feeling, Now)

"I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening."
- Daryl Hannah
(Related: Positive, Feeling, Inspiring, Struggle)

"With guests who are 'in the middle of the fight,' we're able to hear their point-of-view on the topics, as well as advance our own feelings."
- Sean Hannity
(Related: Feelings, Fight, Guests)

"An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination."
- Eduard Hanslick
(Related: Art, Imagination, Feelings, Contemplation)

"Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly."
- Eduard Hanslick
(Related: Imagination, Feelings)

"The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens."
- Eduard Hanslick
(Related: Music, Feelings, Aesthetics)

"Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought."
- E. Y. Harburg
(Related: Music, Thought, Feeling, Song, Words)

"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."
- Thomas Hardy
(Related: Men, Feelings, Language, Woman)

"Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good."
- Mariska Hargitay
(Related: Being, Childhood, Feeling, First, Luxury, Memories, Reward)

"I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man."
- Jean Harlow
(Related: Feeling, Man)

"I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That's an empowering feeling - that we can bring a song to life."
- Ben Harper
(Related: Life, Feeling, Song)

"I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe."
- Ed Harris
(Related: People, Feelings, Being, Right)

"When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings."
- Sydney J. Harris
(Related: Feelings, Thoughts, First)

"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."
- Sydney J. Harris
(Related: Life, People, Feelings)

"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it."
- Rex Harrison
(Related: Idea, Feeling, Wrong)

"I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
- William Henry Harrison
(Related: Government, Purpose, Feeling, Poor)

"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."
- William Henry Harrison
(Related: Power, Nature, Feelings, Exercise, Nothing)

"Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you."
- Vaclav Havel
(Related: Life, Work, Hope, Feeling, Meaning, State, World)

"I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives."
- Salma Hayek
(Related: Women, Feeling)

"I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that."
- Justin Hayward
(Related: Being, Feeling, Want, Worry)

"And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons."
- Patty Hearst
(Related: Crime, Faces, Feeling, Hurt)

"We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility."
- Dorothy Height
(Related: Life, People, Caring, Colors, Dignity, Feeling, Quiet, Responsibility, Sense)

"The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science."
- Werner Heisenberg
(Related: Science, Development, Feeling, Physics)

"I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better."
- Anna Held
(Related: Feelings, Care)

"Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough."
- Robert Heller
(Related: Feeling)

"What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Feelings, Anxiety, Want)

"But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Experience, People, Care, Feeling, Pretty)

"We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't."
- John Hench
(Related: Cities, Colors, Feeling)

"We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more."
- John Hench
(Related: Life, People, Being, Feeling, Ritual)

"A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing."
- Joe Henderson
(Related: Feelings, Thoughts, Light, Weather)

"Feeling a little blue in January is normal."
- Marilu Henner
(Related: Feeling)

"But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling."
- Thierry Henry
(Related: Feeling)

"Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Attention, Being, Feeling, Giving, Public, Speech)

"For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can."
- Jay Hernandez
(Related: Feeling, Pressure)

"I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Thought, Absence, Feeling, Information, Man, Passion)

"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life."
- Herman Hesse
(Related: Art, Life, Wisdom, Soul, Thoughts, Feeling, Nothing, Preparation, Thinking, Unity)

"This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification."
- Herman Hesse
(Related: Happiness, Contentment, Existence, Feeling, Harmony, Nothing)

"And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites."
- Dan Hicks
(Related: Time, Feeling, Old, Songs, Sound, Want)

"So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these... mixed feelings that we had."
- Betty Hill
(Related: Feelings, Reason, Terror)

"One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Life, Feelings, Ideas, Beliefs, Harmony, Measure)

"Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Feelings)

"I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be "up"."
- Gregory Hines
(Related: Feeling, Saying)

"I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money."
- S. E. Hinton
(Related: Money, Imagination, Feelings, Idea, Old)

"I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that."
- Jim Hodges
(Related: Life, Change, History, Feeling)

"It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Awareness, Destiny, Feeling, Mission, Nation)

"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Trust, Cheating, Feeling, Right, World)

"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Favors, Feeling, Pleasure)

"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think."
- Hal Holbrook
(Related: Lie, Causes, Feeling, Hate, Saying)

"What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic."
- Anthony Holden
(Related: Time, Feeling, Pressure, Pretty, Space)

"You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling."
- Billie Holiday
(Related: End, Feeling)

"If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music."
- Billie Holiday
(Related: Music, People, Earth, Feeling)

"In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly."
- Dave Holland
(Related: Music, Feelings, Content, Fact, Jazz, Understanding, Will)

"Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying."
- Ernest Holmes
(Related: Thought, Belief, Feeling, Mind, Prayer)

"What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp."
- Marjorie Holmes
(Related: Feeling)

"After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time."
- Lena Horne
(Related: Time, Feeling, Pain)

"But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality."
- Robert E. Howard
(Related: Idea, Environment, Feeling, Living, Man, Today, Writing)

"We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us."
- Vernon Howard
(Related: Feelings)

"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."
- Edgar Watson Howe
(Related: Home, Feeling, Homesickness, Man, World)

"The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world."
- Edgar Watson Howe
(Related: Bed, Feeling, World)

"I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Happiness, Fear, Feeling, Future, Melancholy, Nothing, Past, Remembrance)

"I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!"
- Arianna Huffington
(Related: Feelings, Guilt, Mothers)

"We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended."
- Brit Hume
(Related: Society, Feelings)

"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."
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Related: Abuse, Feeling, Want)

"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."
- Robert M. Hutchins
(Related: Lie, Feeling)

"One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Patriotism, Feeling, Nation, Wishes)

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Work, Feeling, Man, Sense)

"Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions."
- Scott Ian
(Related: Music, Life, Time, Feelings, Positive, Emotions, Songs)

"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Patriotism, America, Feeling)

"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Patriotism, Country, Feeling)

"The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them."
- Laura Innes
(Related: Feelings, Character)

"I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40."
- Amy Irving
(Related: Work, Thought, Beginning, Career, Feeling, Theater)

"Age is a matter of feeling, not of years."
- Washington Irving
(Related: Age, Feeling, Years)

"Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence."
- Goran Ivanisevic
(Related: Winning, Confidence, Feeling)

"I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it."
- Andrew Jackson
(Related: Government, Feelings, Body, Principles, Republican, Simplicity)

"I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life."
- Andrew Jackson
(Related: Life, Feelings, Regret, Wishes)

"It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling."
- LaToya Jackson
(Related: People, Feeling, Night)

"If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Christmas, Feeling, Meaning, Song, Want)

"When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Cure, Feeling, Wrong)

"Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice."
- Michael Jackson
(Related: Feelings, Heart, English)

"Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't."
- Etta James
(Related: Feeling, Songs)

"There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap."
- Kevin James
(Related: Feeling, World)

"I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell."
- Richard D. James
(Related: Feeling, Hair, School)

"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."
- William James
(Related: Work, Character, Events, Fact, Feeling, Individuality, World)

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
- William James
(Related: Experience)

"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action 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."
- William James
(Related: Action, Control, Feeling, Will)

"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."
- William James
(Related: Heart, Enemies, Feeling, Will, Wrestling)

"If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system."
- William James
(Related: Change, Feeling, Future, Past, Reality, Will)

"They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession."
- Louise Jameson
(Related: Feeling, Profession)

"Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades."
- Michael Patrick Jann
(Related: Life, Day, Effect, Feeling, Light, Night, Talk)

"Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career."
- Al Jarreau
(Related: Experience, Feelings, Career, Old, Rest, Singing)

"Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity."
- Michael Jeffery
(Related: Evening, Feeling, News, Resignation)

"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Feeling, Future, Influence, Will, Writing)

"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Eternity, Feeling, Want, Writing)

"I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots."
- Tom Jenkinson
(Related: Love, Feeling, Traveling)

"If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings."
- Billy Joel
(Related: Music, Feelings, Expression, Humanity, Needs)

"I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time."
- Roland Joffe
(Related: Time, Audiences, Consciousness, Feeling, Fun, Will)

"The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company."
- Pope John XXIII
(Related: Feelings, Company, Nothingness)

"Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them."
- Diane Johnson
(Related: Women, Feeling, Nothing, Rules)

"I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it."
- Don Johnson
(Related: Feelings, Actor, Being)

"My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others."
- Kevin Johnson
(Related: Successful, Feeling, Help, Responsibility)

"We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain."
- Lonnie Earl Johnson
(Related: Circumstances, Feeling, Pain, Victims, Words)

"I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom."
- Lonnie Earl Johnson
(Related: God, Time, Mother, Decision, Children, Feeling, Freedom, Right, Thinking)

"I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: War, People, American, Feeling, Night, Waking)

"I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people."
- Michael Johnson
(Related: People, Feeling, Will)

"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Friendship, Love, Being, Feeling)

"I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment."
- Sonia Johnson
(Related: Church, Feeling, Rights, Help, Name)

"My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brother's keeper."
- Mary Johnston
(Related: Brother, Feeling)

"The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon."
- Angelina Jolie
(Related: Love, Truth, Being, Feeling)

"I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this."
- Diana Wynne Jones
(Related: Genius, People, Encouragement, Feeling, Question)

"You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world."
- James Earl Jones
(Related: Change, Feelings, Chance, Theater, Thinking, World)

"When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language."
- James Earl Jones
(Related: Feelings, Thoughts, Ability, Drama, Language, Literature, Mind, Sermons)

"A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with."
- January Jones
(Related: Feelings, Eyes, Fun, Play)

"I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well."
- Jeffrey Jones
(Related: People, Feeling, Present, Theatre, World)

"The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days."
- Shirley Jones
(Related: Feeling, Reality, Saying, World)

"There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Women, Knowledge, Class, Feeling, Writing)

"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Feelings, Opinions)

"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Beauty, Feelings, Grace, Manners, Moderation, Spirituality)

"Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: Feeling, Taste)

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Gratitude, Soul, Feelings, Appreciation, Curriculum, Teachers)

"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy."
- Franz Kafka
(Related: Feeling)

"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling."
- Frida Kahlo
(Related: Feeling, Now)

"I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win."
- Oliver Kahn
(Related: Brazil, Feeling, World)

"You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going."
- Anish Kapoor
(Related: God, Fear, Day, Feeling)

"Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own."
- Alex Kapranos
(Related: Idea, Feeling)

"In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Related: Feelings, Contempt, Order)

"I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes."
- Lawrence Kasdan
(Related: Movies, Feelings, Attitude, First)

"It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game."
- Garry Kasparov
(Related: Power, Feeling, Losing)

"The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility."
- John Keats
(Related: Feelings, Enemy, Help, Public)

"As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra."
- Howard Keel
(Related: Act, Being, Feeling, Nothing, Numbers, Voice)

"There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution."
- Arthur Keith
(Related: Men, Nature, Women, Evolution, Feeling)

"It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me."
- Thomas Keller
(Related: Feeling)

"I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others."
- DeForest Kelley
(Related: Feelings, Comfort, Deep, Welfare)

"A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones."
- William Kent
(Related: Feeling, Garden, World)

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: Feeling)

"Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: Hope, Feeling)

"The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here."
- Bob Kerrey
(Related: Feeling, Mistakes)

"I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling."
- Persis Khambatta
(Related: History, Feeling)

"I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is"."
- Nicole Kidman
(Related: Dad, Positive, Feeling, Future)

"I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps."
- Nicole Kidman
(Related: People, Vision, Blind, Feeling, Now, Right, Smile, Walking, Years)

"I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved."
- Nicole Kidman
(Related: Love, Feeling, Pretty, Struggle)

"Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one."
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
(Related: Feeling, Worth)

"Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore."
- Jack Kilby
(Related: People, Earth, Feeling, Talk, Years)

"Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did."
- Ben E. King
(Related: Feeling, Kids, Today)

"We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again."
- Ben E. King
(Related: Feeling)

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out."
- Stephen King
(Related: Feelings, Living, Words)

"I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings."
- Thomas Starr King
(Related: Feelings, Right)

"Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Feelings)

"The dimensions of my feelings are too violent."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Feelings)

"I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself."
- Nastassja Kinski
(Related: Feeling, states)

"When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career."
- Tommy Kirk
(Related: Change, Career, Consequences, Disney, Feeling)

"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision."
- Henry A. Kissinger
(Related: Men, Vision, Blind, Feeling)

"Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted."
- Eartha Kitt
(Related: Animals, Being, Children, Feeling)

"Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial."
- Allen Klein
(Related: Humor, Goal, Audiences, Events, Feeling, Help, Laughter, Pain)

"I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair."
- Evel Knievel
(Related: Love, Feeling, Hair, Wind)

"One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends."
- Christopher Knight
(Related: Feeling, Friends, Old, Public)

"I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there."
- David Knopfler
(Related: Poetry, Feeling, Illusion, Magic, Now, Poets)

"While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune."
- Mark Knopfler
(Related: Work, Feeling, Listening, Play, Song)

"There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity."
- John Knowles
(Related: People, Strength, Feeling, Numbers)

"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."
- Kenneth Koch
(Related: Feeling)

"Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists."
- Willem de Kooning
(Related: Feelings, Artist, Artists)

"If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up."
- Fred Korematsu
(Related: Feeling, Wrong)

"And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure."
- Harvey Korman
(Related: Failure, Feeling, Years)

"Do I consider myself sexy? It all depends on the way I'm feeling. When I'm happy inside, that's when I feel most sexy."
- Anna Kournikova
(Related: Feeling)

"That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change."
- Diana Krall
(Related: Change, Love, Feelings, Songs)

"I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of."
- John Krasinski
(Related: Comedy, Drama, Feeling, Fun, Projects)

"An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself."
- Karl Kraus
(Related: Idea, Feeling)

"I experienced a lot, and achieved nearly everything I wanted. I can enjoy that today. Go to bed at nine in the evening, because my child wakes up around seven, without having the feeling that I missed or are missing something."
- Thomas Kretschmann
(Related: Bed, Evening, Feeling, Today)

"Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal."
- Chantal Kreviazuk
(Related: Women, Opportunity, Feeling)

"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Related: Being, Feeling, Listening, Words)

"I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience."
- Barbara Kruger
(Related: Experience, Feeling, Moments, Trying, Understanding)

"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."
- Stanley Kubrick
(Related: Music, Feelings, Emotion, Fiction, Film, Meaning, Moods)

"We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights."
- Lisa Kudrow
(Related: Sex, Feelings, Thoughts, Being, Rights)

"Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another."
- Milan Kundera
(Related: People, Feelings, Nothing)

"But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been."
- William Kunstler
(Related: Darkness, Feeling, Monument, Right)

"When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel."
- Harold Kushner
(Related: Body, Feeling, Kindness)

"Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness."
- Harold Kushner
(Related: Happiness, People, Caring, Feeling, Risk, Running)

"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment."
- Charles Lamb
(Related: Curiosity, Disappointment, Feeling, Newspapers)

"Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow."
- Corliss Lamont
(Related: Men, Decision, Choice, Feeling)

"A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all."
- Frank Lampard
(Related: Feelings, Now, Play)

"Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Feeling, Hunger)

"I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension."
- Michael Landon
(Related: Father, Feelings)

"When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy."
- Diane Lane
(Related: Feeling, Old, Press)

"Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling."
- Christian Lous Lange
(Related: Europe, Feeling, State)

"The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland."
- Christian Lous Lange
(Related: Age, Society, Devotion, Europe, Feeling, Glory, Now, Religious, Respect, State, Tradition, Years)

"Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value."
- Christian Lous Lange
(Related: Work, Feeling, Joy, Solidarity, Value)

"Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature."
- Susanne Langer
(Related: Art, Nature, Feeling)

"But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth."
- Stefano Langone
(Related: Earth, Feeling)

"When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes."
- Christopher Lasch
(Related: Family, Strength, Values, Feeling, Liberals, Popular, Rhetoric)

"I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything."
- Sanaa Lathan
(Related: Being, Feeling, Right, Theater)

"I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea."
- Cyndi Lauper
(Related: Idea, Angels, Earth, Energy, Feeling, Feet, Force, Singing, Stars)

"We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do."
- Linda Lavin
(Related: Feeling, Night)

"Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was."
- Linda Lavin
(Related: Life, Discovery, Feeling, Present)

"Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Feelings)

"The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose."
- Mark Lawrenson
(Related: Feeling)

"My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste."
- Mark Lawrenson
(Related: Decision, Feeling, Haste)

"The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better."
- William P. Leahy
(Related: Feelings, Beliefs, Talk)

"Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass."
- Fran Lebowitz
(Related: People, Ability, Effort, Feeling, Will)

"To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late."
- Ang Lee
(Related: Time, Feelings, America, Conservative)

"I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on."
- Brenda Lee
(Related: Feelings)

"I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work."
- Tanith Lee
(Related: Work, Feeling)

"I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others."
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
(Related: People, Feelings)

"My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years."
- Mario Lemieux
(Related: Body, Concern, Feeling, Play, Years)

"The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it."
- Sean Lennon
(Related: Work, Feeling)

"Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. It's a nice feeling."
- Thomas Lennon
(Related: Work, Feeling, Kids)

"Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link."
- Tea Leoni
(Related: Feelings, Idea, Leading, Want)

"It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then."
- Jonathan Lethem
(Related: Feelings)

"But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man."
- Monica Lewinsky
(Related: Feelings, Being, Man, Self)

"One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed."
- Robert Jay Lifton
(Related: Thought, Doctors, Feeling, Journey, Reason, Study, Want)

"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
- Robert Jay Lifton
(Related: Books, Feeling, Mind)

"At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road."
- Joseph C. Lincoln
(Related: Feelings, Aspirations, Road, Unconscious)

"It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people."
- Ben Linder
(Related: Work, People, Government, Concern, Country, Feeling, First)

"I understand why so many Americans were angry when I was first discovered in Afghanistan. I realize many still are, but I hope in time that feeling will change."
- John Walker Lindh
(Related: Change, Time, Hope, Afghanistan, Americans, Feeling, First, Will)

"But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future."
- Linda Lingle
(Related: Optimism, Feeling, Future, Past, Road, Years)

"Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: American, Country, End, Energy, Feeling, Now, Right, Sight)

"Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words."
- Franz Liszt
(Related: Art, Music, Thought, Feeling, Words)

"What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Comedy, Feeling)

"It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it."
- Penelope Lively
(Related: Children, Feeling, Interest, Literature)

"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."
- Penelope Lively
(Related: Country, Deep, Feeling)

"I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor."
- Donal Logue
(Related: Movies, Feeling)

"But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something."
- John Lone
(Related: Feeling, Open, Waiting, Woman)

"I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it."
- Nia Long
(Related: Day, Feeling)

"I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling."
- Al Lopez
(Related: Feeling, Living)

"I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell."
- Audre Lorde
(Related: Truth, Being, Feeling, Gay, Hell, Key, Light, Lonely)

"I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it."
- Pierre Loti
(Related: Consciousness, Day, Feeling, June, Past, Self, Terror)

"First feelings are always the most natural."
- Louis XIV
(Related: Feelings, First)

"Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly."
- Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Related: Feelings, Character, Strength, Ability, Hurt, Resentment)

"Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity."
- H. P. Lovecraft
(Related: People, Feelings, Crime, Insanity, Religious)

"Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs."
- David Low
(Related: Work, Feelings, Beliefs, Respect)

"There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity."
- Chris Lowe
(Related: Love, People, Dance, Being, Feeling, Humanity, Nothing)

"Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand."
- Gary Lucas
(Related: Feeling, Guitar)

"But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing."
- Ludacris
(Related: Money, Successful, Feeling, Trying, World)

"When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it."
- Lorna Luft
(Related: Mother, Feelings, Heart)

"You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Feelings, Conscience, Word)

"I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?"
- Kelly Lynch
(Related: Feeling, Feet, Now, Right, World)

"When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings."
- Loretta Lynn
(Related: Feelings, Song)

"But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost."
- Alicia Machado
(Related: Friendship, Men, Feelings, First, Saying)

"Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love."
- Alicia Machado
(Related: Love, Women, Feelings, Ability)

"One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives."
- Hugh Mackay
(Related: Change, Choice, Choices, Feeling, Reason, World)

"Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world."
- Archibald MacLeish
(Related: Poetry, Feelings, Events, Journalism, World)

"You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself."
- Elle Macpherson
(Related: Business, End, Facts, Feeling)

"Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind."
- Sydney Madwed
(Related: Peace, Thought, Action, Goal, Feeling, Mind)

"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."
- Naguib Mahfouz
(Related: Time, Life, Feeling, First, Literature)

"One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible."
- Ella Maillart
(Related: Feeling, Oneness, Solidarity, World)

"I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values."
- Ella Maillart
(Related: Values, Feeling, Now, Relationships, Sense)

"Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs."
- Lee Majors
(Related: Thought, Feeling, Injury)

"In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings."
- Nicolas Malebranche
(Related: Experience, Faith, Feelings, Authority, Connection)

"God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul."
- Nicolas Malebranche
(Related: God, Soul, Feelings, Body, Communication, Laws)

"It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that."
- Wendie Malick
(Related: Time, People, Survival, Feeling)

"Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel."
- Maxwell Maltz
(Related: Feelings, Needs, Trouble)

"Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality."
- Maxwell Maltz
(Related: Feelings, Actions, Beliefs, Personality, Psychology, Result)

"It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more."
- Edouard Manet
(Related: Imagination, Science, Feeling, Worth)

"Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life."
- Aimee Mann
(Related: Life, Control, Being, Drugs, Feeling, Shame)

"Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album."
- Aimee Mann
(Related: Music, Emotion, Feeling, Meaning)

"Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves."
- Barry Mann
(Related: People, Feelings)

"It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted."
- Jayne Mansfield
(Related: Feeling, World)

"I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Love, Feeling, Rain, Want)

"I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving."
- Shirley Manson
(Related: Women, Feeling, Giving, Self)

"Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society."
- Shirley Manson
(Related: Society, Appearance, Feeling)

"I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I couldn't move. I couldn't make myself move. It was the strangest feeling."
- Rocky Marciano
(Related: Feeling)

"A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy."
- Cindy Margolis
(Related: Feeling)

"You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real."
- Dan Marino
(Related: Emotion, Feeling)

"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
- Agnes Martin
(Related: Art, Feelings)

"I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show."
- Wink Martindale
(Related: Feeling, Hurt, Will)

"Isn't it strange that its easier to be gentle with the feelings of people we care less about than those of our children, whom we love so much?"
- Stephanie Martson
(Related: Love, People, Feelings, Care, Children)

"I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course."
- Groucho Marx
(Related: Feeling, Golf)

"The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now."
- Richard Marx
(Related: People, Feeling, Now, Reflection, Song)

"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior."
- Abraham Maslow
(Related: People, Feelings, Affection, Behavior, Fact, Security, Will)

"If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that."
- Kurt Masur
(Related: Feeling, Light, Play)

"The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more."
- Marlee Matlin
(Related: Feeling, Reason, World)

"Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul."
- Andre Maurois
(Related: Age, Soul, Body, Evil, Feeling, Generations, Hair, Indifference, Old)

"Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling."
- Catherine McAuley
(Related: Love, Feeling, May, Pity, Wishes)

"If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently."
- Richard McCabe
(Related: Feeling, Shakespeare)

"Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Feelings, Awareness, Consideration, Courtesy, Friends)

"Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through."
- Susannah McCorkle
(Related: God, Despair, Feeling, Songs)

"That's what music has always been to me: a feel. I've listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent."
- Mike McCready
(Related: Music, Time, Feeling, Joy)

"I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it."
- Mark McGwire
(Related: Feeling)

"I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect."
- Brian McKnight
(Related: Being, Feeling, Mistakes, Singing, Songs, Sound, Will)

"Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Hope, Feeling)

"Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition."
- Marshall McLuhan
(Related: Despair, Feeling)

"That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it."
- Marian McPartland
(Related: Feeling, Play, Right)

"There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought."
- Christine McVie
(Related: Thought, Feelings, First, Growing up, Healing)

"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."
- Thomas Francis Meagher
(Related: Crime, Feeling, Jury, Resentment)

"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."
- Simon van der Meer
(Related: Experience, Feeling, Help, Physics)

"I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish."
- Fred Melamed
(Related: Life, Feelings, Being, Comedy, Complaining, Tradition)

"It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Work, People, Being, Celebrity, Fame, Feeling, Pride)

"It is a weird feeling to have people go, "Hey Chris" like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: People, Positive, Feeling)

"I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Love, Feeling, Sensuality, Spring)

"Art is the objectification of feeling."
- Herman Melville
(Related: Art, Feeling)

"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Feeling, Self)

"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Feeling, Giving, Order, Tension)

"I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom."
- Dmitri Mendeleev
(Related: Feeling, Freedom, Help, Responsibility, Want)

"It's a wonderful feeling knowing that people are interested in what I'm doing."
- Rita Mero
(Related: People, Feeling)

"I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading."
- Jason Mewes
(Related: Love, Day, Feeling, Reading)

"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
- John Stuart Mill
(Related: Experience, Feeling, Obligation, Pleasure)

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
- John Stuart Mill
(Related: War, Feeling, Nothing, State, Ugly, Worth)

"Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings."
- Alice Duer Miller
(Related: Feelings, Contempt, Defense)

"A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world."
- Alice Duer Miller
(Related: Mother, Circumstance, Fact, Feeling, World)

"The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes."
- Arthur Miller
(Related: Experience, Feeling, Theater)

"That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way."
- Bode Miller
(Related: Feeling, World)

"My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong."
- Frank Miller
(Related: Feeling, Now, Wrong)

"Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Imagination, Feeling, Future)

"Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us."
- Keith Miller
(Related: God, Feelings)

"A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them."
- Keith Miller
(Related: People, Feelings, Thoughts, Reality, Spiritual)

"We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have."
- Keith Miller
(Related: Feelings)

"No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing."
- Kelly Miller
(Related: War, America, American, Feeling, Nation)

"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings."
- Olin Miller
(Related: Lie, Feelings, Consideration, Man, Will, Woman)

"Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark."
- Dan Millman
(Related: Faith, Life, Heart, Feeling, Living, Uncertainty)

"Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above."
- Czeslaw Milosz
(Related: Acceptance, Feeling)

"The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally."
- Anthony Minghella
(Related: Being, Feeling)

"Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before."
- Kylie Minogue
(Related: People, Cancer, End, Feeling)

"I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different."
- Radha Mitchell
(Related: Time, People, Feeling)

"It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times."
- Gretchen Mol
(Related: Career, Feeling, Interest, Now)

"Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire."
- Alfred Molina
(Related: Time, Feeling, Job)

"She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!"
- Maria Monk
(Related: Feelings, Information)

"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Feeling, Talk)

"I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Talent, Feelings, Want)

"If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into."
- Vaughn Monroe
(Related: Time, Choice, Feeling, Pleasure, Song)

"It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music."
- Ronnie Montrose
(Related: Music, Work, End, Feeling, Guitar)

"We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism."
- Frederica Montseny
(Related: People, Feelings, Communism, Revolution, Spain)

"My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was mine, I cannot describe. I felt that here was a prize for all the games I had ever played."
- Helen Wills Moody
(Related: Feelings, Games)

"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Science, Feeling, Fiction, World)

"Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek."
- Sun Myung Moon
(Related: Love, People, Children, Feeling, Purity)

"Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell."
- George A. Moore
(Related: Feeling, Heaven, Hell)

"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Feeling, Restraint, Silence)

"And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character."
- Mary Tyler Moore
(Related: Character, Feeling, Now)

"To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it."
- Jeanne Moreau
(Related: Love, Feeling, Pain)

"It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience."
- Berthe Morisot
(Related: Experience, Feelings)

"We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."
- Jim Morrison
(Related: Feelings, Fear, Pain, Violence)

"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."
- Jim Morrison
(Related: Love, Friend, Feeling, Freedom, Friends, Help)

"Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings."
- Jelly Roll Morton
(Related: Feelings)

"Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Feeling, First)

"There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material."
- Alison Moyet
(Related: Love, People, Choice, Feeling, Singing)

"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Related: Feelings, Attention, Blame, Praise)

"Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older."
- Max Muller
(Related: Feeling, Memory, Years)

"And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast."
- Max Muller
(Related: Men, Feeling, Right)

"Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are."
- Dinah Maria Mulock
(Related: Thoughts, Comfort, Feeling, Measure, Right, Words)

"For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art."
- Edvard Munch
(Related: Art, Anxiety, Deep, Feeling)

"Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here."
- Eddie Murray
(Related: Being, Feeling, Today)

"For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates."
- Michael Musto
(Related: Idea, Feeling, Years)

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
- Vladimir Nabokov
(Related: Being, Feeling, Words)

"But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes."
- Bruce Nauman
(Related: Enjoyment, Feeling)

"Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son."
- Kent Nerburn
(Related: Love, Father, Son, Heart, Feeling, Joy, Will)

"I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality."
- Barnett Newman
(Related: Hope, Feeling, Giving, Individuality, Painting)

"You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise."
- James Newman
(Related: Circumstances, Feeling, May, Present)

"I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid."
- Helmut Newton
(Related: Money, People, Feelings)

"There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself."
- Wayne Newton
(Related: Life, Feeling)

"Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney."
- Olivia Newton-John
(Related: Feeling, Games, Nothing, Singing, Will)

"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Power, Feeling, Man, Will)

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Feelings, Thoughts, Shadows)

"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."
- Florence Nightingale
(Related: Feelings, Actions, Results, Waste, Words)

"I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength."
- Dennis Nilsen
(Related: Peace, Strength, Burden, Feeling, Wishing)

"It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them."
- Robert De Niro
(Related: People, Feelings)

"We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings."
- Louis Nizer
(Related: Feelings, Hurt)

"The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind."
- Max Nordau
(Related: Idea, Artist, Burden, Feeling, Mind)

"I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley."
- Douglass North
(Related: War, Feeling, Law, School, Want)

"The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe."
- Kim Novak
(Related: Time, Feeling, First, Name, Office)

"Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice."
- Michael Novak
(Related: Love, Happiness, Sacrifice, Feeling)

"It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true."
- Ivor Novello
(Related: Positive, Acting, Deep, Feeling, Girls, Temperament)

"But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling."
- Krist Novoselic
(Related: History, Feeling)

"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."
- Trevor Nunn
(Related: Actor, Feeling, Shakespeare)

"I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera."
- Trevor Nunn
(Related: Feeling, Opera, Theater)

"Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning."
- Joyce Carol Oates
(Related: Winning, Being, Boxing, Feeling, Pain)

"On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future."
- Barack Obama
(Related: People, Fear, Progress, Hope, Vision, Answers, Country, Feeling, Frustration, Future, Giving, Job, Sense)

"Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls."
- Michelle Obama
(Related: Exercise, Feeling, Girls)

"My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it."
- Olusegun Obasanjo
(Related: Faith, God, Feelings)

"It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms."
- Chris O'Donnell
(Related: Feeling)

"It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream."
- Tony Oliva
(Related: Dream, Opportunity, Feeling, Kids)

"I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing."
- Mary Oliver
(Related: Love, Feelings, Duty, Writers)

"Time is the thing. A show like this pulls all your time away from you. Usually I'll get home from work on a Saturday about 10am (after doing night shooting) and I'll sleep until Saturday afternoon. Saturday night and Sunday I'm usually feeling wiped out and I've not seen Holly all week. It's a pretty full-on life, but what do you do? I love my work and there are sacrifices."
- Alex O'Loughlin
(Related: Home, Love, Time, Work, Life, Feeling, Holly, Night, Pretty, Sleep)

"Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral."
- Robert Orben
(Related: Countries, Deep, Feeling, World)

"Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?"
- Robert Orben
(Related: Elections, Feeling, Reason, Right)

"I feel that David took a risk with me. I have a sense that by starting off in the theatre and going off to do films you are seen to sell out in some way. I don't hold truck with that, but you can't stop people from feeling it."
- Julia Ormond
(Related: People, Feeling, Risk, Sense, Theatre)

"Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there."
- P. J. O'Rourke
(Related: Government, Feeling)

"I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything."
- David Ortiz
(Related: Love, People, Fans, Feeling, Walking, Wishing)

"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
- George Orwell
(Related: Age, Feelings)

"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
- George Orwell
(Related: Books, Feeling, Job)

"You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'"
- Marie Osmond
(Related: Women, Baby, Feeling, Job, Man, World)

"Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it."
- Gwyneth Paltrow
(Related: Love, End, Feeling)

"I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling."
- Gwyneth Paltrow
(Related: Feeling)

"These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented."
- Orhan Pamuk
(Related: Society, People, Being, Feeling, Poverty)

"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."
- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
(Related: Life, Music, Feeling, Instinct, Rules)

"I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion."
- Anne Parillaud
(Related: Emotion, Feeling, Laws, Rules)

"Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything."
- Molly Parker
(Related: Control, Feeling, Insecurity, Will)

"Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward."
- Paul Parker
(Related: Community, Feeling, Reward)

"All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking."
- Charles Henry Parkhurst
(Related: Men, Feelings, Thinking)

"Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning."
- Arvo Part
(Related: Life, Music, Work, Answers, Feeling, Meaning)

"The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Soul, Feeling, Immortality)

"We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Love, Feeling, Man)

"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Feeling, Surrender)

"No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim."
- Boris Pasternak
(Related: Love, Compassion, Deep, Feeling, May, World)

"If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be."
- Cesare Pavese
(Related: Life, Feeling, Sin)

"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history."
- Octavio Paz
(Related: History, Nature, Expression, Feeling, Language, Literature, Sense, Silence)

"My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness."
- Gregory Peck
(Related: Vision, America, Feeling, Reflection, Today)

"Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs."
- Robert Peel
(Related: Feeling, Folly, Obstinacy, Opinion, Prejudice, Public, Public opinion, Right, Weakness, Wrong)

"He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous."
- Amanda Peet
(Related: Love, Feeling, Mind)

"If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Feeling, Nothing)

"People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that."
- Roger Penrose
(Related: People, Feeling, Moments)

"Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about."
- Bernadette Peters
(Related: Music, Feelings, Deep)

"If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people."
- William Petersen
(Related: Sports, People, Acting, Career, Feeling, Football, Years)

"Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr."
- Cassandra Peterson
(Related: Character, Feeling, Pretty)

"I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality."
- Daniel Petrie
(Related: Quality, Feeling, First, Relationships)

"I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers."
- Gina Philips
(Related: Movies, Feeling, Horror, Old)

"It's hard for me to put my feelings into words."
- Joaquin Phoenix
(Related: Feelings, Words)

"We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing."
- River Phoenix
(Related: Countries, Feeling)

"It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies."
- River Phoenix
(Related: Movies, People, Friend, Feeling)

"I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had."
- Edith Piaf
(Related: Day, Feeling, Song)

"Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa."
- T. Boone Pickens
(Related: Feeling)

"My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too."
- Mary Pierce
(Related: Life, Court, Feeling)

"A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place."
- Luigi Pirandello
(Related: Feelings, Fact, First)

"People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant."
- Bernard Pivot
(Related: People, Feeling, Language)

"You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules."
- Bernard Pivot
(Related: Feeling, Guests, Language, Rules, World)

"It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness."
- Robert Plant
(Related: Power, Time, People, Ability, Effect, Feeling, Goodness, Smile)

"Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Feeling, Thinking, Woman)

"Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."
- Plato
(Related: Feeling, Philosophy, Wonder)

"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
- Henri Poincare
(Related: Elegance, Feeling, Solution)

"Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling."
- Roman Polanski
(Related: Feeling)

"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell."
- Michael Polanyi
(Related: Feelings, Knowledge, Communication)

"The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."
- Jackson Pollock
(Related: Time, Feelings, Artist, Space)

"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."
- Emily Post
(Related: Feelings, Awareness, Manners)

"I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my job, and if they want to come on a set and see me work, they always can."
- Franka Potente
(Related: Work, Feelings, Job, Want)

"The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling."
- Paula Poundstone
(Related: Time, Death, Feeling, Sin, Taxes, Wages)

"Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental."
- Dick Powell
(Related: Being, Environment, Feeling, Safety, Wind)

"You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot."
- Victoria Pratt
(Related: Feelings, Relationships, Vulnerability)

"I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right."
- Jacqueline du Pre
(Related: Feeling, Play, Right)

"I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right."
- Jacqueline du Pre
(Related: Love, Being, Earth, Feeling, Play, Right)

"When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good."
- Alain Prost
(Related: Feeling, Race)

"Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers."
- Richard Pryor
(Related: Marriage, Feelings, Lawyers)

"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."
- Salvatore Quasimodo
(Related: Poetry, Feeling)

"It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Time, Father, Truth, Feeling)

"We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music."
- Mick Ralphs
(Related: Music, People, Fanatics, Songs)

"You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on."
- Harold Ramis
(Related: Feelings, Country)

"If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words."
- Charlotte Rampling
(Related: Feeling, Words)

"Feeling better is not actually being better."
- James Randi
(Related: Being, Feeling)

"You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here."
- Irving Ravetch
(Related: Family, Work, Feeling)

"Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case."
- John Rawls
(Related: Life, Feelings, Animals, Compassion, Destruction, Evil, Humanity, Pain, Pleasure, Wrong)

"The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised."
- Herbert Read
(Related: Feeling, Rectitude, Sense)

"Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings."
- Vanessa Redgrave
(Related: People, Feelings, Shakespeare)

"Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package."
- Keanu Reeves
(Related: Age, Crisis, Feeling)

"In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this."
- Godfrey Reggio
(Related: People, Feeling, Resolution, Struggle, Trying)

"There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite."
- John C. Reilly
(Related: Earth, Feeling, Water)

"We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here."
- Erich Maria Remarque
(Related: Peace, Feelings, Burden, Want)

"I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that."
- Frank Reynolds
(Related: Feelings)

"Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling."
- Adrienne Rich
(Related: Feeling, Pride)

"We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative."
- Adrienne Rich
(Related: Vision, Feeling, Language, May, Old, Running, Thinking)

"I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back."
- Ann Richards
(Related: Life, Feelings)

"I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong."
- Ann Richards
(Related: Dad, College, Feeling, Wrong)

"A date once leaned in to kiss me, and he ended up kissing my cheek. He was a little offended, but I didn't want to kiss him just to not hurt his feelings."
- Denise Richards
(Related: Kiss, Feelings, Hurt, Kissing, Want)

"As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them."
- Natasha Richardson
(Related: Politics, Feelings, Thoughts, Care, Childhood, World)

"It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people."
- Terry Riley
(Related: Experience, People, Being, Feeling)

"Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
(Related: Work, Feelings, Belief, Reality, Will, World)

"In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself."
- Michael Ritchie
(Related: Work, Opportunity, Feeling, Years)

"I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques."
- Herb Ritts
(Related: Friend, Feeling, Learning, Light, School)

"Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you."
- Herb Ritts
(Related: Home, Environment, Feeling, Style)

"I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves."
- Jay Roach
(Related: Love, People, Control, Addiction, Feeling, Losing, Pleasure, Theater)

"My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot."
- Robin Roberts
(Related: People, Baseball, Feeling, Play, Right)

"And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset."
- Pat Robertson
(Related: Faith, People, Feeling, Freedom, Rights, Order)

"I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States."
- Paul Robeson
(Related: Peace, People, American, Feeling, President, states, Struggle, United)

"There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings."
- John Buchanan Robinson
(Related: Feelings, Thoughts)

"And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world."
- Kid Rock
(Related: Music, Feeling, World)

"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"
- Norman Rockwell
(Related: Talent, Conscience, Feeling, Man)

"My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble."
- Bill Rodgers
(Related: Feeling, Racing)

"In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged."
- Dennis Rodman
(Related: Feeling)

"I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face."
- Richard Rogers
(Related: Feeling, Old)

"Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium."
- Henry Rollins
(Related: Art, Feelings, Artist, Being, Giving)

"I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine."
- Henry Rollins
(Related: Feeling, Meaning, Pain)

"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones."
- Andy Rooney
(Related: Feeling, Mistakes)

"Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Related: Determination, Concern, Deep, Feeling, Ideals, Principles)

"The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify."
- Elihu Root
(Related: Peace, Action, Argument, Causes, Doctrine, Feeling, Propaganda)

"Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it."
- David Rose
(Related: Feeling, Information)

"I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism."
- Alfred Rosenberg
(Related: Time, Feeling, Socialism, Vengeance, Will)

"I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Feeling, Will)

"A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays."
- Bruno Rossi
(Related: Work, Feeling, Man, Reason)

"The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man."
- Bruno Rossi
(Related: Imagination, Nature, Motivation, Wealth, Discovery, Feeling, Man)

"My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later."
- Portia de Rossi
(Related: Feelings, Fear, Being, Lesbian)

"Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said."
- Jean Rostand
(Related: Ability, Feeling, Nothing)

"Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him."
- Arnold Rothstein
(Related: Being, Feeling, Killing, Thinking, Wishing)

"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."
- Georges Rouault
(Related: Mother, Father, Heart, Country, Faces, Feeling, Grace, Light, Nothing, Old, Rest, Understanding)

"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Feeling, Man, Passion, Reason, Rest)

"I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator."
- Galen Rowell
(Related: Feeling, Sense, Spiritual, World)

"But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends."
- Josiah Royce
(Related: Feeling, Friends, World)

"I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me."
- Josiah Royce
(Related: Thought, People, Feelings, World)

"Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?"
- Rita Rudner
(Related: Men, Women, God, Feeling)

"The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever."
- Wilma Rudolph
(Related: Accomplishment, Feeling, Gold)

"I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me."
- Wilma Rudolph
(Related: Feeling, Freedom, Running)

"I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families."
- Ja Rule
(Related: Religion, God, Feeling, Want)

"The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me."
- Jimmy Rushing
(Related: Life, People, Feelings, Nothing, Right)

"The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing."
- Jimmy Rushing
(Related: Feeling)

"All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Feelings, Effect)

"Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?"
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Successful, Feeling, Hatred, Propaganda)

"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Time, Wisdom, Thought, Feeling)

"What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for."
- John Russell
(Related: People, Feeling, Will, World)

"I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas."
- Robert Ryan
(Related: Character, Attention, Eyes, Feeling, Portraits, Project)

"I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling."
- Robert Ryan
(Related: Work, Feeling, Right, Training)

"It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?"
- Winona Ryder
(Related: Heart, Feeling, Hate, Past)

"When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being."
- Winona Ryder
(Related: Answers, Being, Feeling)

"You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused."
- Winona Ryder
(Related: Money, Being, Cure, Feeling)

"I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing."
- Gabriela Sabatini
(Related: Confidence, Feeling)

"My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms."
- Fred Saberhagen
(Related: Time, Books, Feeling, Now)

"Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on."
- Joe Sacco
(Related: Feeling, Writing)

"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."
- Francoise Sagan
(Related: Music, Feeling, Jazz)

"I have a feeling I'm going to wake up one day and say 'I can't do dirty stuff anymore, I want to go all clean.' I'll do clean stuff too, I like to entertain people. Then they egged me on; we shot it at The Laugh Factory."
- Bob Saget
(Related: People, Day, Feeling, Want)

"Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate."
- Sallust
(Related: Feelings, Tears, Word)

"Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Feeling, Man, Shame, Woman)

"Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction."
- Barry Sanders
(Related: Time, Feelings, Conviction, End)

"We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge."
- Bernard Sanders
(Related: Medical, People, Duty, Feeling, Result)

"I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that."
- Adam Sandler
(Related: Dad, Family, Feeling, Kids)

"Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world."
- George Santayana
(Related: Music, Feelings, Events, Giving, World)

"My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge."
- Rick Santorum
(Related: Money, Feeling, Right)

"I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure."
- Susan Sarandon
(Related: Control, Body, Disorder, Eating, Feeling, Pressure, Solution, Talking, Trying)

"True feeling justifies whatever it may cost."
- May Sarton
(Related: Feeling, May)

"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."
- Virginia Satir
(Related: Family, Feelings, Communication, Mistakes, Open, Rules, Worth)

"I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you."
- Greta Scacchi
(Related: Feelings, Conviction, Emotions, Fools, Sharing)

"There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense."
- Arthur Scargill
(Related: Strength, Feeling, Nonsense)

"In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically."
- Michael Schenker
(Related: Feeling, Past, Play)

"I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself."
- Michael Schenker
(Related: Feeling, Order, Play)

"I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?"
- Curt Schilling
(Related: Family, Father, Feelings, Illness)

"Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm."
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
(Related: Religion, Feelings, Enthusiasm, Thoughts, Chaos, Man, Spirit)

"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
(Related: Religion, Anger, Hatred, Humility, Pain, Smile)

"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."
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
(Related: Nature, Being, Ethics, Feeling, Now, Pleasure)

"The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence."
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
(Related: Religion, Dependence, Feeling)

"I have a feeling he felt Jon Voight had run away with the film, which he didn't, though he was brilliant in it, in a much less easy part. I just don't know what had got into him, but something had."
- John Schlesinger
(Related: Feeling, Film)

"I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless."
- Alfred Schnittke
(Related: Heart, Feeling)

"I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words."
- Arnold Schoenberg
(Related: Music, Feelings, Cause, Emotions, Painting, Vice, Words)

"I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling."
- Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz
(Related: People, American, Feeling, Hearing, Race, Singing)

"After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Feeling)

"We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything."
- Ashley Scott
(Related: Dad, Bizarre, Feeling, First, Nothing)

"When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Character, Circumstances, Feeling, Pain, Want)

"Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Feelings, Actor, Being)

"I don't like acting things; I like feeling things."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Acting, Feeling)

"Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question."
- Willard Scott
(Related: Family, Feelings, Positive, Being, Personality, Question)

"You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor."
- William Scranton
(Related: People, Feeling, Responsibility)

"With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention."
- Jon Secada
(Related: Music, Time, Feeling, First, Intention, Production, Songs, Want)

"Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust."
- Lance Secretan
(Related: Love, Trust, Heart, Feeling, Feet, Followers, Leaders, Saying, Thinking)

"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
- Anton Seidl
(Related: Artists, Devotion, Fact, Feeling, Singing)

"You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood."
- Ayrton Senna
(Related: Feelings, Winning, Race, Will)

"The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot."
- Anne Sexton
(Related: Sex, Feeling, Saying, Writing)

"Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?"
- Garry Shandling
(Related: Commitment, Feeling, Friends, Intimacy, Problems, Reflection, Relationships)

"I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is."
- Michael Shanks
(Related: Feelings, Hurt, Result)

"I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess."
- Del Shannon
(Related: Feeling)

"A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless."
- Moshe Sharett
(Related: Feeling)

"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Home, Feeling)

"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Happiness, Peace, Heart, Beginning, Boats, End, Feeling, Nothing, Pain)

"In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that."
- Irwin Shaw
(Related: America, Artist, Example, Feeling)

"I just wanna give a big shout out to all the fans out there who have followed my work up until now. You guys are amazing!! Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world."
- Lindsey Shaw
(Related: Work, Fans, Feeling, Hearing, Now, World)

"Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better."
- Billy Sheehan
(Related: Music, Soul, Thought, People, Heart, Act, Feeling, Result, Will)