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Feelings Quotes

"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."

Eva Braun, German Celebrity

Feelings, Feeling, Nothing, Now, Today

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

Josh Billings, American Comedian

Feelings, Feeling, Laughter

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

George Gobel, American Comedian

Feelings, Feeling, World

"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."

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

Feelings, Feeling, Talk

"You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on."

Harold Ramis, American Actor

Feelings, Country

"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."

Neve Campbell, Canadian Actress

Feelings, Feeling, Sadness

"My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring."

Geoffrey Fisher, British Clergyman

Feelings, Holidays, Sight

"What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared."

Mariel Hemingway, American Actress

Feelings, Anxiety, Want

"She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!"

Maria Monk, Canadian Celebrity

Feelings, Information

"We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."

Jim Morrison, American Musician

Feelings, Fear, Pain, Violence

"Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings."

Jelly Roll Morton, American Musician

"I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself."

Tom Wilkinson, British Actor

Feelings, Thoughts, Dress, Now

"So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air."

Pharrell Williams, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Painting

"Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice."

Michael Jackson, American Musician

Feelings, Heart, English

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

Fred Korematsu, American Celebrity

Feelings, Feeling, Wrong

"I've suffered too much to hide my feelings."

Isabelle Adjani, French Actress

"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."

June Carter Cash, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Road, Will

"I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was."

David Thewlis, English Actor

Feelings, Feeling

"Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it."

David Rose, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Information

"Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney."

Olivia Newton-John, Australian Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Games, Nothing, Singing

"In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically."

Michael Schenker, German Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Past, Play

"I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Meaning, Pain

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

Jacqueline Bisset, English Actress

Feelings, Feeling

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

Diane Lane, American Actress

Feelings, Feeling, Old, Press

"I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not."

Brooke Shields, American Actress

Feelings, Control, Hope, Healing

"I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky."

Talia Shire, American Actress

Feelings, Feeling, Old, Years

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

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American Actor

Feelings, Feeling, Losing

"The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing."

Jimmy Rushing, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling

"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."

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

Feelings, Feeling, Names

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

Ace Frehley, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, May, Play

"None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings."

Ric Flair, American Celebrity

"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."

Mary Chapin Carpenter, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Song, Want

"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."

Arthur Godfrey, American Entertainer

Feelings, Feeling, Running

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

Sheryl Crow, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Freedom, Marketing, Materialism

"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian Musician

Feelings, Attention, Blame, Praise

"To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself."

Melvin Calvin, American Scientist

Feelings, Words

"I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man."

Ike Turner, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Man

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

Geezer Butler, English Musician

Feelings, Feeling

"The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them."

Laura Innes, American Actress

Feelings, Character

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

Shelley Duvall, American Actress

Feelings, Feeling, Nothing

"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."

Marlee Matlin, American Actress

Feelings, Feeling, Reason, World

"When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

"You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot."

Victoria Pratt, Canadian Actress

Feelings, Relationships, Vulnerability

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

Arthur Freed, American Producer

Feelings, Feeling, Rain, Singing

"A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless."

Moshe Sharett, Israeli Statesman

Feelings, Feeling

"Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality."

Maxwell Maltz, American Scientist

Feelings, Actions, Beliefs, Personality

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

Benjamin Jowett, English Theologian

Feelings, Feeling, Taste

"Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel."

Maxwell Maltz, American Scientist

Feelings, Needs, Trouble

"Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man."

Ralph Steadman, British Cartoonist

Feelings, Feeling, Help, Man

"It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry."

Robin Trower, English Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Play

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