Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

My biggest emotion on Apollo 13 after the oxygen tank explosion was disappointment that we had lost the landing.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

To be psychic is to see without the senses and to keep the thoughts and emotions of others out of your awareness.

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise.

Cher is one of the most talented women I've ever met. She's got depth and emotion that haven't even been touched.

Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.

There's nothing wrong with having a bad day. Let yourself feel those emotions because every emotion is validated.

No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside.

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.

Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.

for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

I have a really hard time watching my sister act in anything, but especially anything where it's a strong emotion.

Like most people raised on American movies, I have poor access to my emotions, but can banter like a motherfucker.

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

I think the emotion between a child and a mother is the most beautiful and honest emotion you will ever get to see.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

Jealousy is a human emotion, regardless of whether you're a Branch Davidian or you're whomever, outside in society.

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

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.

If a person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can't prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

When I sing songs, I love to put emotion into it. I want people to feel what I feel and just disappear for a moment.

I think there's still an appetite among a certain audience to see intelligent movies that have real emotion in them.

On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Nostalgia is a strange and powerful emotion. As much we try and fight it and fight ourselves, it's very hard not to.

Do not become angry and furious.... for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire.

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