Quotes on Feeling

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Author: Hank Aaron

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

Author: Richard Adams

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

Author: Aeschylus

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

Author: Sasha Alexander

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.

Author: Chris Allsburg

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.

Author: Aldrich Ames

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

Author: David Antin

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Author: Diane Arbus

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

Author: Mackenzie Astin

The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!

Author: Christopher Atkins

I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won.

Author: Ron Atkinson

I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.

Author: Burt Bacharach

Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling.

Author: John Badham

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

Author: Oksana Baiul

In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.

Author: Emily Balch

There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.

Author: Peter Banks

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

Author: Roger Bannister

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Author: Luis Barragan

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

Author: L. Baum

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

Author: Vicki Baum

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Author: Robert Benton

I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.

Author: Michael Bergin

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Author: Josh Billings

I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves.

Author: Brad Bird

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

Author: Jacqueline Bisset

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.

Author: Alice Blackwell

It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.

Author: Drew Bledsoe

I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is.

Author: Bobby Bonilla

I was feeling well enough to eat the pears.

Author: Lizzie Borden

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

Author: Elizabeth Bowen

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

Author: Georg Brandes

Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.

Author: Georg Brandes

Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.

Author: Eva Braun

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.

Author: David Brin

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Author: Charlotte Bronte

I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid.

Author: Delta Burke

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.

Author: Geezer Butler

I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.

Author: John Cale

There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.

Author: Neve Campbell

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

Author: Henry Carey

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Author: Mary Carpenter

You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.

Author: Emily Carr

It depends on how Johnny's feeling... If we go back on the road, we will go together. I'll go where he goes, and he'll go where I go.

Author: June Cash

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.

Author: Catherine Catherine II

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

Author: Michael Chabon

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

Author: Whittaker Chambers

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

Author: Tracy Chapman

I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.

Author: Rosemary Clooney

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

Author: Sebastian Coe

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Author: Frank Colby

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

Author: Barbara Cook

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

Author: Rob Corddry

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

Author: Doug Coupland

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

Author: Doug Coupland

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Author: Doug Coupland

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

Author: Jim Courier

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

Author: David Coverdale

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

Author: Stafford Cripps

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

Author: Jon Crosby

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

Author: Sheryl Crow

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

Author: Jamie Curtis

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

Author: Jim Dale

If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.

Author: Eric Davis

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

Author: Claude Debussy

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

Author: Jackie DeShannon

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Author: Emily Dickinson

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Author: Denis Diderot

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

Author: Edsger Dijkstra

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.

Author: Robert Dole

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Author: Rita Dove

If someone is expressing everything I am feeling at the moment, it's probably Jon Stewart. I hear him and think, Yeah!

Author: Sandy Duncan

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

Author: Robert Duvall

There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.

Author: Shelley Duvall

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Author: George Eliot

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

Author: Agnetha Faltskog

But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year's season.

Author: Roger Federer

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

Author: Ralph Fiennes

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

Author: Gustave Flaubert

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

Author: Ben Folds

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.

Author: Robert Forster

I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.

Author: Arthur Freed

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

Author: Ace Frehley

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Author: Lucian Freud

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Author: Margaret Fuller

Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?

Author: George Gobel

I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.

Author: Arthur Godfrey

I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.

Author: Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

Author: Anne Grant

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.

Author: Catherine Great

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

Author: Kate Greenaway

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

Author: Rachel Griffiths

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Author: Thomas Guthrie

The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.

Author: Lawrence Halprin

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

Author: Lionel Hampton

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

Author: Jean Harlow

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

Author: Robert Heller

Feeling a little blue in January is normal.

Author: Marilu Henner

But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.

Author: Thierry Henry

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

Author: Jay Hernandez

I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be "up".

Author: Gregory Hines

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Author: Marjorie Holmes

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.

Author: Etta James

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

Author: Kevin James

I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.

Author: Richard James

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

Author: Louise Jameson

I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing.

Author: Elfriede Jelinek

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

Author: Shirley Jones

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.

Author: Benjamin Jowett

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Author: Franz Kafka

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

Author: Frida Kahlo

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me.

Author: Thomas Keller

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

Author: William Kent

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Author: Jean Kerr

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

Author: Bob Kerrey

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

Author: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.

Author: Ben King

We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again.

Author: Ben King

I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

Author: Nastassja Kinski

One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.

Author: Christopher Knight

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

Author: Kenneth Koch

If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up.

Author: Fred Korematsu

Do I consider myself sexy? It all depends on the way I'm feeling. When I'm happy inside, that's when I feel most sexy.

Author: Anna Kournikova

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.

Author: Burt Lancaster

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

Author: Diane Lane

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

Author: Linda Lavin

The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.

Author: Mark Lawrenson

But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.

Author: John Lone

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.

Author: Al Lopez

Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.

Author: Gary Lucas

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

Author: Kelly Lynch

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

Author: Ella Maillart

It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.

Author: Jayne Mansfield

I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I couldn't move. I couldn't make myself move. It was the strangest feeling.

Author: Rocky Marciano

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

Author: Cindy Margolis

I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show.

Author: Wink Martindale

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

Author: Groucho Marx

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

Author: Kurt Masur

The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.

Author: Marlee Matlin

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

Author: Richard McCabe

I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.

Author: Mark McGwire

That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.

Author: Marian McPartland

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Author: H. Mencken

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Author: H. Mencken

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

Author: Dmitri Mendeleev

That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.

Author: Bode Miller

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Author: Frank Miller

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Author: Marilyn Monroe

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Author: George Moore