There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.
- Keith Sweat
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
- John Buchan
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
- Anne McCaffrey
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
- Henri Matisse
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
- Jean Cocteau
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
- Plato
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
- Bryant H. McGill
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
- Brian Tracy
Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.
- Meg Tilly
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn’t just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.
- Ruth Pitter
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.
- Erykah Badu
I don’t want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it’s to show one emotion.
- Pedro Almodovar
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
- Oscar Wilde
Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we’re all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.
- George Eads
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
- Albert Einstein
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
- Luis Barragan
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
- James A. Michener