I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.
~By Tim McGraw ~
We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.
~By Anthony Head ~
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
~By Ichiro Suzuki ~
There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
~By John Travolta ~
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
~By Vernon Howard ~
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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 ~
Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.
~By Jody Watley ~
That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
~By Ringo Starr ~
With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.
~By Payne Stewart ~
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
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 ~
I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.
~By Rosanne Cash ~
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 ~
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
~By Arnold Schoenberg ~
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
~By Tony Robbins ~
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
~By Alice James ~
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 eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
~By Boris Becker ~
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 ~
I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
~By Roger Ebert ~
My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
~By Oksana Baiul ~
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 ~
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
~By A. C. Benson ~
Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.
~By Robert Altman ~
There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.
~By Corin Nemec ~
Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.
~By Marilu Henner ~
I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.
~By Jim Valvano ~
I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
~By Ted Shawn ~
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
~By Libby Houston ~
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 ~
Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
~By Ian Botham ~
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 ~
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?
~By Franz Kline ~
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
~By Diana Ross ~
You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
I can access emotions very easily.
~By Allison Janney ~
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
~By Ralph Bakshi ~
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
~By Marya Mannes ~
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 ~
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
~By Paul Engle ~
I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
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 ~
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
~By George Gissing ~
Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as "negative" is actually a liberating process for me.
~By Grey DeLisle ~
People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.
~By LaToya London ~
The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.
~By Steven Levy ~
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
~By Paul Ryan ~
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.
~By Judith Wright ~
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.
~By Lakshmi Mittal ~
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 ~
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 ~
When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
The road Cordelia has travelled, the journey she has taken up to now has been such a joy to play as an actress, because there have been so many chances to do so many different emotions.
~By Charisma Carpenter ~
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 ~
The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.
~By Richard Curtis ~
I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
~By Lars von Trier ~
The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.
~By Jesse Eisenberg ~
Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
~By Amanda Seyfried ~
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 ~
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.
~By Lillian Russell ~
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
~By James A. Michener ~
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
~By Marilyn French ~
I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
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 ~
Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
~By Camilla Belle ~
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 ~
It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
~By Dennis Potter ~
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
~By Patrick Marber ~
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
~By Alex Grey ~
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.
~By Picabo Street ~
Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.
~By Neil Jordan ~
I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.
~By Harlan Howard ~
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.
~By Elmer Bernstein ~
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
~By Irvin S. Cobb ~
Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.
~By Reba McEntire ~
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.
~By Alan Hovhaness ~
I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.
~By Marcia Gay Harden ~
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.
~By John Robinson ~
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