Quotes About Emotion

Reason is not completely conscious, but mostly unconscious. Reason is not purely literal, but largely metaphorical and imaginative. Reason is not dispassionate, but emotionally engaged.

This is how reason really works: through framing, metaphors, emotion, narratives, and imagery.

I genuinely believe that, physically and emotionally, women are far stronger than men. The amount of pain they have to endure for a childbirth, a man cannot take an ounce of it. A toothache or a stomach upset is the end of our world at times.

I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

I can't believe that I just won a gold medal. I think it will take a bit to sink in.

Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened.

When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it.

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.

Look at Nicola Walker in 'Last Tango in Halifax.' She has the most wonderful face. You just want to look at her. And if she'd gone off and had Botox and facelifts, I wouldn't want to look at that face because it wouldn't express anything.

Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, people have an emotional response to ice cream; it's more than just food. So I think when you combine caring, and eating wonderful food, it's a very powerful combination.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

It's a wonderful acting challenge to tell a story and convey emotion with only your voice.

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.

I'm a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker's 'You Are So Beautiful' and Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight' - songs that go straight to the point.

If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

Seeing all the people smiling and laughing and clapping for me... it's such a wonderful feeling.

I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.

It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.