Quotes About Emotion

But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.

And crying doesn't always mean need

She runs in my blood and beats in my heart; she is part of me, always, so I don't have to picture her to remember her.

dozen multiple intelligences—cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, moral intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, logico-mathematical intelligence, spiritual intelligence, aesthetic intelligence, and so on.

Culture has very much to do with the human spirit. What we find beautiful or entertaining or moving is rooted in our spiritual life.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power.

You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?

During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.