Raymond Williams Quotes

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

Raymond Williams

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• I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Emotion
  • Scared
  • Fearless

• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Film
  • Emotion

• We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Release
  • Touring
  • Began

• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Art
  • For Her

• All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Good
  • Done
  • Career

• 'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.

  

  Sampha
  • Song
  • Emotion
  • Leave

• Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Nature
  • Fear
  • Best

• A lot of magic happens when you put out a publicity release. I have launched many products with the money I got back from my publicity release.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Money
  • Magic
  • Release

• Fear is the one emotion that unleashed can destroy anything and anyone.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Fear
  • Emotion
  • Unleashed

• I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Sometimes

• I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Power

• Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • Music
  • Language
  • Emotion

• Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Confidence

• All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Art
  • Action

• Anger is a wasted emotion.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Emotion
  • Anger

• The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a tale and deep as emotion. So strong, it can lift the spirit. So gentle, it can touch the heart. It is the magic that begins the happily ever after.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Deep

• The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Experience
  • Emotion
  • Composer

• You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Art

• No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Heart
  • Emotion
  • Judgement

• All perception is colored by emotion.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Emotion
  • Perception
  • Colored

• The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a challenge: What am I feeling about this song? Where did the melody come from? I want it to be heartfelt.

  

  Avey Tare Animal Collective
  • Song
  • Feelings
  • Challenges

• I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Religion
  • Afraid

• If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

  

  Raymond Williams
  • Emotion
  • Release
  • Succession