Emotions Quotes

• I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Feelings

• Too many bands are scared to show emotions these days. They seem to think it’ll stop them being cool or something. We’ve never been cool. We’ve always been into emotionally charged music.

  

  Tim Rice-Oxley Keane
  • Music
  • Emotions
  • Bands

• What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • Fear
  • Intimacy
  • Meanness

• I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Music
  • Story

• I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Great
  • Character
  • American

• There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Cold
  • Musicians

• Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • World
  • Happy
  • Emotions

• Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Forget
  • Passionate
  • Severity

• I think the best thing is having a voice and being able to give people a different perspective and a different opinion and voice my emotions and how I feel. To be heard by people, it feels good.

  

  Andrew Bazzi
  • Opinion
  • Voice
  • Emotions

• I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Dream
  • Poetry
  • Singer-songwriter

• I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Like
  • Feel

• American Idol it was a real roller coaster of emotions—I was always nervous, happy, sad or excited. It was an amazing journey…something that I’ll always take with me for the rest of my career.

  

  Gabby Barrett
  • Career
  • Journey
  • Emotions

• Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Knowledge
  • Happiness
  • Teacher

• Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Different
  • Capable
  • Perseverance

• There is a string attached to Maia Sharp's voice. And when she sings, you find that the other end is attached to your gut. Her voice is lush and sensual and the emotions she articulates resonate with the small feelings we have that sometimes are hard to face..there is an edge to her songs, but also a softness...she is lyrical and conversational at the same time. Her CD was the only one in my machine for a month. Her work inspires me to dig deeper.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • Time
  • Work
  • She

• White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Understand
  • Demonstrations
  • Frustrations

• I'm a really sensitive person. I cry if I miss a cab. I've always worn my emotions on my sleeve. I think it makes life so much better when you can talk about anything.

  

  Michael Keaton
  • Better
  • Anything
  • Sensitive

• An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Optimistic
  • Expectation
  • Confusion

• Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Emotions
  • Storms

• We may express them [emotions] physically slightly differently, and it's of course graded depending on the circumstance, but the essence of the process is going to be the same, unless one of us is not quite well put together and is missing something, otherwise it's going to be the same.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • May
  • Together
  • Process

• The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • May
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Life
  • Movie

• Young people have so many emotions growing up. If you don't feel accepted, you start sneaking around and engaging in dangerous practices.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Emotions
  • Young People
  • Engaging

• Fear and faith have a lot in common. Both of these emotions require that you believe in something that you can't see.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Fear
  • Faith
  • Emotions

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