Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.
~By Keith Sweat ~
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional.
~By Sean Bean ~
Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.
~By Meg Tilly ~
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 ~
Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
~By Ted Koppel ~
It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
~By Vin Diesel ~
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
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 ~
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
~By C. S. Forester ~
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 ~
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.
~By Edward Levi ~
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
~By Balthus ~
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
~By Marya Mannes ~
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.
~By Anne Parillaud ~
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy.
~By Norma McCorvey ~
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
~By Barbara Kolb ~
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
~By Jack Lemmon ~
Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
~By Billy Sunday ~
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
~By Graham Chapman ~
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.
~By Lil' Kim ~
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
~By Paul Harris ~
My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.
~By Wilfred Burchett ~
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
~By Sai Baba ~
When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.
~By Helena Christensen ~
There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
~By John Travolta ~
When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
~By John Fahey ~
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.
~By Dino De Laurentiis ~
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
~By Tony Robbins ~
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 ~
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
~By Richard Linklater ~
I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
~By Lucian Freud ~
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
~By Anne Stevenson ~
There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.
~By Doris Humphrey ~
I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.
~By Chely Wright ~
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 ~
At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.
~By Paula Danziger ~
Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.
~By Jim Hodges ~
The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
~By Brian Tracy ~
But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
~By Ho Chi Minh ~
Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
~By Dan Marino ~
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
~By Sinclair Lewis ~
It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging.
~By Gregory Hines ~
The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
~By Anne McCaffrey ~
I think my emotional revulsion against Stalin's terror would have stopped me in my tracks.
~By Theodore Hall ~
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
~By Magic Johnson ~
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
~By Brian Eno ~
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
~By Diane Ackerman ~
I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
~By Xun Zi ~
I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
~By David Friedman ~
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
~By Irvin S. Cobb ~
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!
~By George Herman ~
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.
~By Jack Osbourne ~
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
~By Franz Boas ~
If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The more abilities that we have, the more choices we can make musically.
~By Ken Hill ~
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
~By Henri Matisse ~
The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.
~By Brian May ~
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
~By Ed Harris ~
Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
~By James Joyce ~
Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.
~By Henry Hampton ~
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 ~
I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.
~By Gloria Stuart ~
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
~By Ella Maillart ~
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
~By David Hume ~
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
~By Alexis Korner ~
I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
~By Patrick Marber ~
The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
~By Linda Vester ~
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
~By Joseph Roux ~
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come.
~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
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 ~
I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.
~By Enya ~
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.
~By Dwight Yoakam ~
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
~By Peggy Noonan ~
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