Famous Quotes & Sayings

Augusten Burroughs

You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This is the only feeling. I feel like the paper on which my mood chart is printed.

Art Garfunkel

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

Ayn Rand

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

Ayn Rand

I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.

Benjamin Disraeli

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Daniel Handler

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

Daniel Handler

If you don’t care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the first letters. Somebody who didn’t care about dentists, for instance could say ‘Dentist, schmentists.

Daniel Handler

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

Craig Ferguson

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.

Conor McGregor

I like looking good. But it's also about the feeling, right?

Elizabeth Strout

The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch steps, felt absolutely certain that some wonderful change was arriving in her life. The strength of this belief was puzzling; what she was feeling, she decided, was really the presence of God.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

If you take someone's thoughts and feelings away, bit by bit, consistantly, they then have nothing left except some gritty, gnawing, shitty little instinct, down there, somewhere, worming around in the gut, but so far down, so hidden, it's impossible to find.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Eli Manning

I don't like the feeling of losing.

Eli Roth

You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially acceptable to be terrified. It's saying that, for the next 90 minutes, you're allowed to be afraid and you're not a coward for feeling that way.

Alessia Cara

If I'm experiencing a different thing every day and seeing a new environment every day, it can create a different mood or different feeling.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Which of us can control his feelings?

Albert Einstein

It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

Alfred Rosenberg

I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.

Agnes Obel

Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.

Andie MacDowell

For me, it's sad to say, but I would probably have a spiritual marriage but not a legal marriage, because I think so much about marriage starts to become about finances. It has nothing to do with God or feelings or the romantic side of marriage. It's about who owns what, who gets what? So what's the point?

Adam Carolla

I guess my feeling is that if you’re going to make a joke, that’s fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you’re trying to make.

Abraham Lincoln

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

Annalena McAfee

My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.

Anish Kapoor

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

Andrew McMahon

I can say for the first time that I am not afraid, and while this is a feeling that can undoubtedly change with time, I feel cradled by this universe and the immense love that comes from it.

Amy Lee

I know how it feels to be completely alone and helpless, and the last thing you want to hear in that situation is, 'It's going to be OK.' "The only thing that seems to really help is that someone else who has felt that low expressing those feelings to you.

Ann Brashares

You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.

Ann Brashares

At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.

Andrea Dworkin

I also had nightmares. Somehow all the feelings I didn't feel when each thing had actually happened to me I did feel when I slept.

A. S. Byatt

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

Adrienne Rich

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.