So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
~By Pharrell Williams ~
I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.
~By Marion Cotillard ~
I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling.
~By Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz ~
I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
~By Adrian Edmondson ~
I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.
~By Jessica Hagedorn ~
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.
~By Pete Hamill ~
There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.
~By Christine McVie ~
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
~By Harold Kushner ~
I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.
~By Kevin Costner ~
I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.
~By Carol Shields ~
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
~By Lee Strasberg ~
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
~By Ichiro Suzuki ~
If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.
~By Herb Brooks ~
And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
God knows, I never want to hurt someone's feelings.
~By Selma Blair ~
I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
~By Geronimo ~
I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black.
~By Octavia Butler ~
The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.
~By Richard Marx ~
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
~By Richard L. Evans ~
Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.
~By Ralph Boston ~
Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.
~By Bernard Barton ~
I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.
~By Dick York ~
One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.
~By Christopher Knight ~
Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
~By Paris Hilton ~
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.
~By David Coverdale ~
Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.
~By Robert Welch ~
Chris Cutler was kind enough to offer his company as an umbrella, so now I can have all my back catalogue under one roof as it were, and it has the same feeling as with Daniel; this is a matter between friends rather than businessmen.
~By Fred Frith ~
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
~By Anne Grant ~
Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.
~By Peter Farrelly ~
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
~By Mary Oliver ~
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.
~By Michael Patrick Jann ~
I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.
~By Alfred Rosenberg ~
And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.
~By Morris Chestnut ~
What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.
~By Thad Cochran ~
My feelings about myself have been terrible.
~By Alvin Ailey ~
I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
~By Thomas Szasz ~
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
~By E. Y. Harburg ~
If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.
~By Robert J. Dole ~
When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
~By Winona Ryder ~
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.
~By Luke Wilson ~
The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.
~By Tanya Tucker ~
The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.
~By Willa Ford ~
That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change.
~By Diana Krall ~
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
~By Washington Irving ~
Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.
~By Marcia Wallace ~
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
~By Plato ~
In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
~By Friedrich Schleiermacher ~
No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.
~By George W. Bush ~
There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
~By Arthur Scargill ~
Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
~By Gail Sheehy ~
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.
~By Stella Blum ~
I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
~By Edith Piaf ~
To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.
~By Melvin Calvin ~
It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.
~By Robert De Niro ~
Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.
~By Simon van der Meer ~
I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.
~By Galen Rowell ~
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 ~
I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
~By Frances Farmer ~
I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'
~By Craig Bruce ~
I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.
~By Michael Schenker ~
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
~By Francis Wright ~
I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.
~By Robert Forster ~
I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
~By Hal Holbrook ~
It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
~By Berthe Morisot ~
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.
~By Michael Jeffery ~
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
~By Carol Ann Duffy ~
There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.
~By John Knowles ~
I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.
~By Tom Wilkinson ~
It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people.
~By Terry Riley ~
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
~By Erykah Badu ~
I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.
~By Chris Wedge ~
Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.
~By Tracey Emin ~
Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year's season.
~By Roger Federer ~
My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brother's keeper.
~By Mary Johnston ~
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.
~By John Britton ~
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
~By Andre Maurois ~
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.
~By David Blaine ~
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
~By Norman Cousins ~
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.
~By Lawrence Halprin ~
I understand why so many Americans were angry when I was first discovered in Afghanistan. I realize many still are, but I hope in time that feeling will change.
~By John Walker Lindh ~
Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.
~By Gary Lucas ~
Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
~By Stephen King ~
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