Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip.

Bill Vaughan

...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?

David Thewlis

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.

Charles de Lint

There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on, and the giving only makes you feel better. The others are just words on a page.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man is ugly,' Kainene said. There was a small smile on her face and then she was laughing, and Olanna could not help but laugh too, because it was not what she had wanted to hear and because hearing it had made her feel better.

Beverly Sills

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

Barry Bonds

I know when I'm off alignment. I know when my body is out of adjustment. If your body is there, then mentally, you'll be there. If your body feels good, then your mind feels good and your are going to feel better about your game.

Derek Jeter

I can see how people work out to feel better.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

Cecelia Ahern

Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.

Carrie Chapman Catt

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

Carrie Underwood

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

Arnold Schoenberg

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.

Bill Vaughan

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

Charles R. Swindoll

Lead with action and let the feelings follow.

Yoda

Use your feelings, Obi-Wan, and find him you will.

Beck

When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The more time I spent with him, the more I knew the feelings weren't going away.

Graham Murray

That was as expected by the medical staff - they'll be fine.

Pete Fenson

We could hear the Swiss yelling and stuff. We expected that.

Brenden Morrow

We just didn't have the jump right away. We expected a big game from them because they've been hot.

Jeremy Burk

We played outstanding. We shot the way they expected to all year.

Sarah Kay

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.

Michael Bergin

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.

Patricia McBride

I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.

Craig Stinnett

We've got that Gill magic, I guess. Nobody even expected us to be here. To come out and play like we did shows a lot of heart and determination.

John Pine

Most grabbed some stuff thinking we would be back in three days. They never expected this.