Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Fellowes

Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”

Joyce Meyer

You may get an emotional thrill when you first buy something, but emotions are fickle. You buy that one thing you think will complete your happiness, but after awhile the feeling goes away and you have to go to the next thing. You just keep going from purchase to purchase looking for the one thing that will finally satisfy. But stuff can't satisfy.

Paul Tournier

People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.

Paul Kurtz

Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.

Paul Di Filippo

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

Owen D. Young

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

Ozwald Boateng

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

Peter Greenaway

I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to handle those situations is at a sufficient remove. It's like a doctor and a nurse and a casualty situation. You can't help the patient and you can't help yourself by emoting. And I don't think cinema is intended for therapy, so I object also to that huge, massive manipulation which is perpetrated on the public.

Mel Brooks

My movies were not reaping the kind of emotional rewards that I wanted. I wanted them to be appreciated and they weren't. I didn't want the reviews to say, "Mel Brooks has made another movie," and you get the title somewhere in the second paragraph.

Mary McDonnell

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

Mary Oliver

Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.

Emma Stone

If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion.

John Mellencamp

When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.

John Hench

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

John Osborne

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

John Oliver

I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

John Dewey

By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and subject matters, acquires needed skill, and is saturated with its emotional spirit.

John Dewey

Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.

Lawrence O'Donnell

What I do respect is that Donald Trump knows that it is an emotional appeal and it might be emotional appeals that I don`t - can`t expect.But he knows that you have to appeal to the voter, and that`s why I may be wrong. I made a big deal about there`s no way he`s going to win.

Joseph Wambaugh

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

Joseph Campbell

The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

Juliana Hatfield

I'm kind of an emotional exhibitionist.

Julianne Moore

When I started out, the most terrifying thing was when I had to be very, very emotional in front of lots of people. Now I've kind of learned that it is very important to keep talking all day, keep making jokes, and be connected with people, and be present. It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional. I learned that is sort of the way I need to be.

Juan Gris

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

Karen Kain

Know that there is so much more to you than your body. It's not just about perfecting the steps; you must trust your instincts to tell deep, emotional stories through the steps that you are performing.

Judith Wright

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

Leonard Cohen

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

Leigh Steinberg

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

Laurell K. Hamilton

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

Lisa Alther

The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.

Lucian Freud

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

Malcolm Gladwell

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

Gaby Hoffmann

I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially.