Eileen Wilks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
-
I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
-
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
-
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.
-
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
-
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
-
Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.
-
Music is what our feelings sound like.
-
I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
-
Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
-
One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
-
The next time you find yourself racing quickly down the street, know that you're not only running to your next appointment, you are literally running from contact with your truest feelings, deepest needs and most valuable insights.
-
You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.
-
Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.
-
When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.
-
The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.
-
I'm always looking for ways to connect myself with American people and that American feeling. I'm trying to pick up on the feeling of places, like the Los Angeles feeling or the New York feeling... Los Angeles is much better for me that way.
-
The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.
-
I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.
-
If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
-
There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.
-
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.
-
Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.
