I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.

President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.

You cannot simplify human intelligence, emotion, and growth. To watch the frills and furbelows of a human psyche is fascinating.

By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly

The thrills, the turmoil, the passion, the stunning surprises of that roller coaster ride in '72 caused our emotions to run wild

May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

Instead of relying on expensive marketing, habit-forming companies link their services to the users' daily routines and emotions.

For some producers who are technical-minded, making the song sound good is easy, and getting the emotion into the song is harder.

I'm drawn to the romantic aspect of a character. It's human emotion. It's much more fun to watch. And it's much more fun to play.

You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.

All along, my mantra was: Don't write unless it contributes to the emotion, and do anything you do in service of the emotion only.

For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

Whoever, however close to me you may be. Nobody can change my emotions. Even if I am sad it's my own problem, not somebody else's.

I'm a pretty early adopter of social media. There's a whole subculture to it. I'm smart enough not to tweet things out of emotion.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.

It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?

Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture.

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

You only communicate to pass the time, or to express the emotions. Your tongue has to develop [the capacity] to speak consciousness.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

I haven't even had to learn, but it's just this natural thing to be able to express any emotion I have through the tone of my voice.

Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions.

Each organ is related to an emotion, and the lungs are related to grief. When you clear your lungs, you eliminate grief and sadness.

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

I want people to feel the emotion, try to relate to the way that I look or want to be like me in the way that I'm living or whatever.

I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear.

Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.

Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.

You know, the emotion - it comes in my art. The kind of person I am, I can deal with things, and I do and I can, but I'm not a crier.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit.

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