When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.

I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don't just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you're not allowed to come into my town.

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.