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Feelings Quotes


"Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell."


"I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline."


"We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again."


"Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed."


"When you read a script, you get a feeling from it."


"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."


"When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings."


"Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man."


"I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling."



"It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you."


"For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of."


"When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays."


"We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings."


"The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness."


"My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later."


"Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it."


"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."


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


"Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors."


"I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better."


"Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions."


"Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it."
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