Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Spotnitz

People love to be scared because it's a cathartic experience, because you get to experience all those emotions, all those fears you have ... and a hero or heroes take you through it, they make sense of it, and they emerge victorious at the end of the hour. By the end of the hour, you feel better and you feel safer.

Lisa Presley

I don't respond to music that's not honest, and music's had a huge influence on my whole life. It's gotten me through everything. I don't respond to music that's full of crap . Since it's also a therapeutic and cathartic thing for me to write, I'm not going to go halfway or be some puffball.

Nick Nolte

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

Sarah McLachlan

Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.

Charles Hazlewood

Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.

Dax Shepard

So if you're on the motorcycle, on the track you're not thinking at all about what's happening next week or tomorrow or anything. You're literally thinking about the turn you're setting up and there's something about that I find very cathartic and meditative.

Sharon Van Etten

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

William Reed

We recognized that people didn't have connection to the outside except by telephone. That really limits their connection to the outside to connect with family. Plus, these folks have been traumatized by this tragedy. Having them work with the volunteers to find their family is also a cathartic experience.

George Will

Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious as a solution.

Richard Preston

Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling redwood space over redwood time, over thousands of years.

John Hagel III

Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it's constantly seeking out new challenges. But what's really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.

Mark Schultz

Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world.

Dave McCullough

Starting in 2000, we started having problems with customers turning to China, and then all of a sudden our production costs started going up and up. Basically, since 2000, we've been in a constant decline.

Alice Englert

Some of us don't have the energy to be as incredible and riotous and fantastic as Emma Thompson. You're constantly just lapping up her incredible hilariousness.

Brad Zigler

Some people are unable to get over their prejudices. The culprit is the constant characterization of options as gambling.

Drew DiPippo

Overall our defense has been a general constant for us. We've only given up more than 50 points in one or two games. Certainly, we could still improve at it.

David Novak

Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

Kelly Redmond

We've talked about this whole thing of Eskimos having 31 names for snow. If you live in a dry climate, you probably have 31 names for drought. When you are constantly faced with something, each instance matters.

O. Singh

Maybe, the West also knows about our nuclear resources and wants to weaken our capabilities and hence this nuclear deal.

Terry Pratchett

The place looked as though it had been visited by Gengiz Cohen (footnote: hence the term "wholesale destruction")

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

Andrew Marr

Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either.

John Pearson

First, learn from hence to meditate upon your own Mortality, and be now assured, by this neer and home example, that your self shall die.

John Cleveland

Strafford who was hurried hence / 'Twixt treason and convenience.

Vaughn Cordle

They don't want to go that deep. Hence the strike threat.

Adolph Green

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

Terry Riley

So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

Jeremy Taylor

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Alphonse Karr

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

Alice Waters

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.

Jane Hamilton

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

Al Ries

The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.

Charles Baudelaire

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Marina and the Diamonds

Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.

Dan Anderson

It got a terrific response here at Wesley,

Mark Cuban

Johnson's response then: ??I don't know, I don't know.

Greg Stone

I'm shocked. I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Barbara Smith

I'd like to see the developers' response to the neighborhood's concerns.

Scott Baker

It can be more than that. It's not unusual for all of the staff to work on responses

Jim Angell

I think their response has been very measured.

Greg Stone

I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Paul Goldblatt

This was not a response to any one incident.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Mark Tacchi

That was the first time, other than the medley (relay) that we've put Libby (O'Brien) on anchor. Starting her just wasn't working. When Krissy (Brown) starts, that seems to spark her. We get more out of it all the way around with Krissy starting and Libby on anchor.

Fergal Murray

That?s the one everyone seems to go straight for.

Jimmy Baron

I was very concerned, but he seems to be fine.

Jim Smith

I tell them it's the future. It seems to be where truck tires are heading.

R. Robinson

I think just watching (tape of) the team we're going to play there seems to be more urgency, there's more awareness, more attitude.

Robin Wright

I think just by watching him, like, 'Let's get on with it. Let's just shoot the scene, and we're done,' which seems logical.

Randy Ready

(Johnston) has been hot. Anything he touches right now seems to work out for him.

Jay Haas

I'd like it to go back to no carts. It just seems right. It seems like if spectators can go out and walk, we can, too. It's part of the competition.

Bob Dylan

God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.

Bernard Williams

Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.

Fanny Burney

Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

Wole Soyinka

I am a glutton for tranquility.

Curly Howard

I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache.

Tom Smith

I'm not really a drug person. And the tics wax and wane naturally, so you don't even know if the medications are helping.

Gloria Steinem

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.

Tom Robbins

More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.