Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Charles Dickens

"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

Charles Dickens

It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!

Alan Watts

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Alain Robert

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Al Lopez

I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Chloe Sevigny

If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Dave Gahan

I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

David Knopfler

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

David Krumholtz

I feel like I'm just starting though. It's weird, because I like feeling like I'm just beginning. I hope I feel that when I'm 75 or 80.

David Ginola

I am feeling razor-sharp. Training sessions are really good. I feel that I am in peak condition. I know that I am ready for action.

David Deutsch

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

Bryan Ferry

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

Catherine the Great

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

Catherine the Great

to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.

The one thing we haven't done much is come back. It's great to do that and have the feeling that we can do it.

We are a team with no names. But I have a feeling after tomorrow night we'll have a few names.

We started off the second half good. I think we relaxed a little bit, honestly, ... I got the feeling that we felt like we had the game in hand. We had a lead, but it wasn't too much.

When you talk to everyone, you just get the feeling we're going to be able to get something done at Indiana. When I looked at the situation there, I just realized that this could be a really good opportunity for me.

We're not going to slow down. We've got the sectional at Eisenhower. We're feeling good.

Louis C. K.

I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know?

Louis C. K.

Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.

Kurt Vonnegut

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

Aidan Turner

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.

Bill Paxton

Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can't forget the audience.

Bill Keller

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.

Eddie Izzard

If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.

Eartha Kitt

I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.

David Hume

.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.