Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
~By Ansel Adams ~
It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever.
~By Alberto Tomba ~
You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.
~By Jon Crosby ~
I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
~By Elizabeth Moon ~
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
~By Ken Hill ~
I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.
~By Vinnie Vincent ~
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.
~By Lakshmi Mittal ~
I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.
~By Siobhan Fahey ~
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
~By Clive Bell ~
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
~By Han Suyin ~
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
~By Algernon H. Blackwood ~
Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.
~By Robert Redford ~
The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.
~By Joss Whedon ~
I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.
~By Marcia Gay Harden ~
Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.
~By Corin Nemec ~
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.
~By John Vinocur ~
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
~By Arthur Miller ~
There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.
~By Billy Corgan ~
The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
~By Edna O'Brien ~
I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.
~By Richard Gere ~
Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.
~By Kenny G ~
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.
~By Dennis Franz ~
I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.
~By Lauryn Hill ~
When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.
~By Mariska Hargitay ~
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
~By William Wordsworth ~
We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing.
~By William H. Macy ~
As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.
~By Jim Hodges ~
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
~By Kate Millett ~
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
~By Hugh Jackman ~
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
~By Stendhal ~
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
~By Richard Linklater ~
When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
~By Ethel Waters ~
I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
~By Gene Tierney ~
When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.
~By J. Enoch Powell ~
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
~By E. M. Forster ~
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
~By Giuseppe Verdi ~
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
~By Isabel Allende ~
Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.
~By Marsha Mason ~
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.
~By Rick Moody ~
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
~By Andrew Wyeth ~
Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.
~By Ron Taffel ~
Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.
~By Harrison Ford ~
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there.
~By Hunter Tylo ~
Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.
~By Jan Hammer ~
So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein.
~By Guy Green ~
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
~By Gloria Steinem ~
We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.
~By Marion Zimmer Bradley ~
Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.
~By Olga Korbut ~
If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
~By Berkeley Breathed ~
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
~By John Strachan ~
There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!
~By Douglas Wood ~
The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.
~By Madalyn Murray O'Hair ~
It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.
~By David Canary ~
Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.
~By Skeet Ulrich ~
With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.
~By Tom Hooper ~
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.
~By Richard Foreman ~
But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.
~By Trevor Rabin ~
I think it'll be an emotional day. It'll be exciting for me, mostly it'll be exciting for them. I'm not going to get to come here a lot, so, it'll be a special day, hopefully.
~By Latrell Sprewell ~
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
~By Ville Valo ~
I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
~By James Joyce ~
They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.
~By Sarah McLachlan ~
As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
~By Loretta Young ~
There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
~By Ayn Rand ~
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.
~By Erykah Badu ~
When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.
~By John Mellencamp ~
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
~By Bono ~
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
~By Joni Mitchell ~
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
~By James Otis ~
Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
~By Ian Botham ~
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.
~By Frank Luntz ~
I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.
~By Geddy Lee ~
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
~By Joseph Roux ~
When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.
~By Helena Christensen ~
Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.
~By Julie Walters ~
The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.
~By Klaus Schulze ~
It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.
~By Meg White ~
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
~By Thomas Lynch ~
We're still a great team. In your mind you can understand that but, emotionally, we needed to express the same belief. We came out full of fire and scored two early goals, two really beautiful goals, and that changed everything.
~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
Ultimately, I'm a mess. I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally - I mean, I think probably everybody's a mess. David's a mess. But. I'm talking about... I'm messy.
~By Michael C. Hall ~
Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
~By Brad Holland ~
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
~By Sarah Silverman ~
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
~By Libby Houston ~
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