Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.

With Street View, you're curating a data set capable of incredible emotional resonance for the person interacting with it because everyone grew up somewhere. And if your house is in this dataset, that's going to provide some emotional context for you.

The blues, the way it's interpreted, is always a product of your environment, and so it's almost like food. You know, it's like you use the ingredients, and you use your life experiences that you have.

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting it's something far, far deeper than that.

Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell?

I don't like the idea of "understanding" a film. I don't believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn't. If you are moved by it, you don't need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music has been turned off.

Cómo iba a verme en un viejo que lagrimea oyendo «Un Rayito de Luna» de Los Panchos! Por la puerta mal cerrada de mi sensibilidad, una noche se me coló la música del mundo hasta el mero corazón.

If you hate and resent a situation, you have fastened it to yourself, for you attract what you fear or dislike. When someone has been unjust to you, you are filled with wrath and resentment.

Contar una aventura no es el objetivo; los personajes ayudan a escuchar a otro, que quizá sea mi hermano, mi prójimo, mi amigo, mi ancestro, mi doble.

Posible definición del amor: un electrochoque que resucita el recuerdo.

It is not always the events that touch us personally that affect us the most.

The two women exchanged a slight and hasty smile. And that flash of a smile was enough for Faith to understand that Mrs. Vellet was not dry, and Miss Hunter was not cold, and to sense a moment of rightness like two notes in accord, the tiniest fragment of a melody that she did not understand.

Osje?am da naše duše razgovaraju ?ak i kad šutimo. A naša tijela razumiju što onome drugome treba. Dovoljan je jedan pogled da bi se njime prenio svijet emocija i nijansa koji nije mogu?e objasniti rije?ima.

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, or making friends. It's about doing what you love the best you know how. It's about making a heart pound in fear, shrink from rage, weep with understanding, or soar with excitement. It's about making worlds and living in them deeply enough someone else can join you there. It's about life changed to words, words changed to life, over and over and over again. It's about giving.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

All music is beautiful.

When he's happy, it makes you happy too.

If after I read a poem, the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so, I'm sure it's a good one.

on sound] It's just the one most all-embracing, forgiving, understanding thing there is. Just in the full abstraction of it, it doesn't ask any questions and you don't have to explain yourself. And it's the one world where...that can cover all the ... emotional levels of you. At least, I'm the kind of person who when it comes to, say, something like language or just communicating on a daily basis, I feel like I'm trying to put an ocean through a straw.

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.