Emotion Quotes

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

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

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

Sex is emotion in motion.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.

I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional.

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

I use dancing to embellish, extend or enlarge upon an existing emotion.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.