Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Muggeridge

The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens , provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.

James Joyce

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

James Rosenquist

If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.

James Salter

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

Libba Bray

I don't know. Sometimes, I feel nothing, and I'm so afraid. Afraid I'll stop feeling anything at all. I'll just slip away inside myself...I just need to feel something" A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 177, by

Libba Bray

So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

Leslie Mann

What I loved about [The Other Woman] movie was the same thing. It was three women who would never have come together for any other reason except that they had something in common which was this common cause, and that's really the feeling that I wanted this movie to have. It was a huge influence for it.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

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.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

Johnny Winter

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

Johnny Cash

Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.

Luanne Rice

Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.

John Coltrane

Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.

John Coltrane

When you are playing with someone who really has something to say, even though they may be otherwise quite different in style, there’s one thing that remains constant. And that is the tension of the experience, that electricity, that kind of feeling that is a lift sort of feeling. No matter where it happens, you know when that feeling comes upon you, and it makes you feel happy.

John Coltrane

There is never any end... There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state.

John Bradshaw

All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble.

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

Luis Guzman

I'm feeling very angry right now, because I have only one bed and no couch.

Mikhail Saakashvili

You can understand mixed feelings that people might have here,

These kids are getting their feelings hurt from the position you are putting them in,

Eric Hoffer

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

Eric Braeden

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.

Emmy Rossum

It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.

James Corden

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

Napoleon Hill

The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind.

Napoleon Hill

ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

Odette Annable

If you ever were bullied, you always remember that feeling.

Oksana Baiul

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

Orson Welles

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

Oliver Stone

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

Oliver Sacks

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.