Quotes About Emotion

Vengeance," Pino said calmly, feeling weirdly out of his body. "Italians believe in it, mon général. Italians believe bloodshed is good for the wounded soul.

That sounded like love, Pino thought. When I fall in love, I think it will feel just like that.

And then we were swept up, just like the La Scala performers say, playing con smania, with passion.

Pino took one last look at the Beltraminis before walking south toward the telephone exchange, feeling like the blast had cut out part of his heart.

Music is how we survive such times,

But you are so full of love for me, it beams from you, makes me feel beautiful, which makes you beautiful to me." "Then

I'm only asking for a little love." "I think you'd settle for a kiss," Carletto said. "I'd be happy with a smile." Pino sighed.

Just dance, and smile, and let your body speak the language of love.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

When I find a well-drawn character in fiction or biography, I generally take a warm personal interest in him, for the reason that I have known him before—met him on the river.

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.