Quotes About Feeling

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don't feel that. This is just a work environment.

Scoring goals is the best feeling in the world. It's a habit. It's a drug. Everybody runs away in the playground pretending they've scored in front of thousands of people. I do that for real.

I have the ability to see results six months later and there's no better feeling. We impact on thousands of people in the world. And in New York, which is the roughest, when people appreciate what we're doing, it puts the Simoniz back on the apple.

When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.

'Ali' is a breakthrough for its director, Michael Mann. The film, based on the life of Muhammad Ali, is Mr. Mann's first movie with feeling; his overwhelming love of its subject will turn audiences into exuberant, thrilled fight crowds.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

For me, the costume is very important. More the feel of it than the look of it. I take it more from the inside. So if I wear something that's heavy, it will affect my character. Is it very tight, and do I feel almost imprisoned, or is it very comfortable? It's the feeling of the costume that tells me where to go with the character.

I am yearning for love, yearning for a girl poor of heart who loves me, her hand is trembling on a blue treetop, in order to yearn for my love, always at a high place, is trembling with gentle feeling.

Fascination is not the same as interest. It's a neurological state of intense focus, one that creates an irresistible feeling of engagement.

Literature is an art, and the essence of all art is mood.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Trust what moves you most deeply.

Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.

"In God We Trust." It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased: it always sounds well In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. And in a measure it is true half the nation trusts in Him. That half has decided it.

Appreciation is not a warm feeling, Rydra realized, but cool, and makes your back relax at the same time that you smile.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

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But he was left with the all-too-familiar feeling of having been infected by insanity, of being drawn into someone else's insanity.

The thrill of telling her true feelings without considering good manners or the propriety of what she had to say was intoxicating.

When being unable to differentiate a good from a bad decision:it has become time to follow your heart.