Quotes About Emotion

But I come to stories in the naked hope they will fuck me up .

In fact, I'm willing to argue at this point that we are all Drooling Fanatics, that every single human being carries within him or her the need for music and that we differ only in matters of degree and expression.

Jonas had ended things with Terry Tanaka, not because he didn't care about her, but because he knew he was falling in love. Hers were the ties that kept him bound to the mission; their blossoming relationship would be his death knell.

Fear makes us do things we might never agree to do, doesn't it, my dear?

Ted, calm down—

In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

Television is light filled with someone else's anxiety.

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.

1939. Love rages. It cries out from you, seething and red; I come back for more and more.

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs at you.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

You couldn't have ironed her voice any flatter.

He sounded like the kind of guy who gets mad for a living.

stop heaping your own definition of love on men and recognize that men love differently.

a woman's love—it stands the test of time, logic, and all circumstance.

Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

What chord did she pluck in my soul that girl with the golden necklace & ivory breasts whose body ignited the river: she who rose like the moon from her bathing & brushed back the ebony hair that fell to her waist & walked off into the twilight dark— O my soul, what chord did she pluck that I am still trembling.

You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.

Happiness is the gauge that measures your relationship with God."

Let the glow in your heart reflect in your soul."

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

True courage is more a matter of intellect than of feeling.