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 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 ~
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 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 ~
A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.
~By Picabo Street ~
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 ~
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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 ~
When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.
~By Jeff Gordon ~
We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.
~By Frank Jordan ~
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
~By Ella Maillart ~
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
~By Henry James ~
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 ~
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.
~By Corin Nemec ~
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
~By Phil Knight ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.
~By Payne Stewart ~
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 ~
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 think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.
~By Amanda Burton ~
Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.
~By Clay Aiken ~
I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.
~By Rosanne Cash ~
Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
~By Scott Ian ~
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 ~
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
~By Serge Daney ~
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 ~
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
~By Eric Brown ~
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
~By Anna Freud ~
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 understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
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 ~
Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.
~By Lillian Russell ~
My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
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 ~
Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
~By Ian Botham ~
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
~By Princess Diana ~
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
~By Vernon Howard ~
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
~By Marya Mannes ~
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
~By Libby Houston ~
It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
~By Dennis Potter ~
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 ~
The emotions of the game do not change.
~By Jack Youngblood ~
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
~By Stanley Kubrick ~
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
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 ~
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 ~
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
~By Thomas Moore ~
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 ~
I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.
~By Marcia Gay Harden ~
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 ~
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 ~
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
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 ~
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 ~
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
~By Anne Stevenson ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
~By Ian Mckellen ~
The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.
~By Mary MacLane ~
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 ~
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 ~
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
~By Anita Baker ~
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
~By Ken Burns ~
I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.
~By Marion Cotillard ~
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 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 ~
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 have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
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 ~
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up.
~By Marie Osmond ~
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
~By Pierre Loti ~
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
~By Irvin S. Cobb ~
I can access emotions very easily.
~By Allison Janney ~
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
~By Toru Takemitsu ~
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
~By Tony Robbins ~
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
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