Bill Konigsberg Quotes

That never even occurred to me, that he had feelings.

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• In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Up
  • Feelings
  • Brother

• And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Believe
  • Taken
  • Feelings

• All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • May
  • Interesting

• I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Money
  • Why
  • Imagination

• I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Church
  • Feelings

• One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Feelings

• I have no human feelings.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Feelings
  • Human

• One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • World
  • Long
  • Running

• 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

• The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Politics

• It's been the toughest week of my life, not touching you. Not talking to you. Waiting to see what you were going to do." He kissed her again, a warm, damp touch of lips, exquisitely controlled. "But it doesn't matter whether you stay or go. I'll still need you. So if you want to go off to Boston, Ill wait. Right here, whenever you need me.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Life
  • Control
  • Waiting

• You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Children
  • Deep

• We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Love
  • Thoughts
  • Feelings

• When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Song

• Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Time
  • Feelings
  • Tree

• I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.

  

  Ugo Mochi
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Control

• The first noticeable thing to me about falling in love for the first time is how physical it is. But I've had it a couple times, so it's not just the first time, which is actually encouraging. It's just you feel like you're being ripped in half and it hurts in the best way. And it's like this dropping pole that also floats and it burns and it's cold. It's like just all every contradictory feeling at once imploding.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Fall

• I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Nice

• Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Feelings
  • Humans
  • Worlds

• The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Worst

• If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Work
  • God
  • Believe

• Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Mind
  • May

• Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

  

  Juan Williams
  • Understand
  • Ahead
  • Moves

• That never even occurred to me, that he had feelings.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Feelings
  • Occurred