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Quotes About Emotion

The best movies leave audiences feeling glad to be alive, human, and reaching out to one another."—ROBERT WISE, AFI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
~ Unknown
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
~ Tom Schulman
Felt good, though, just being what I was.
~ Tom Spanbauer
Strange when that part in you is touched how quickly you can fall apart. It's as if the words that are being said go to the deepest place, the place in you that's become the way you've become so you can keep on going. The helmet you put on when you were a kid that grew into your head and now someone is saying you have a helmet on your head.
~ Tom Spanbauer
Music is the structure of the invisible," she says.
~ Tom Spanbauer
It's all sad, Gruney," Hank said. "If we let ourselves know how sad it really is, there wouldn't be anything left of us.
~ Tom Spanbauer
Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.
~ Tom Spanbauer
Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.
~ Tom Spanbauer
I was wounded by a blow of love.
~ Tom Spanbauer
Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?
~ Tom Spanbauer
Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
~ Tom Stoppard
Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
The power of liking or disliking, or what psychologists call "affect," should not be underestimated: It not only informs what we feel about something like art but influences how we see it.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
How you feel about something, she said, is there before you detect the stimulus;
~ Tom Vanderbilt
The psychologist Robert Zajonc argued that the way we feel about something, rather than coming on the heels of cognition—that is, "before I can like something, I must have some knowledge about it"—actually accompanies and may even precede it.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.
~ Tom Waits
Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.
~ Tom Waits
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
~ Tom Waits
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
~ Tom Waits
It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.
~ Tom Waits
You must have brought the bad weather with you The sky's the color of lead All you've left me is a feather On an unmade bed
~ Tom Waits
Picture in a frame
~ Tom Waits
Songs are really just interesting things to be doing with the air
~ Tom Waits
It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
~ Tom Wopat