Felt Quotes - Page 3

• Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Wall, School, Light

  "State trouper". Interview with Lynsey Hanley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

  Chris D'Elia

  Acting, Found

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2012.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.

  Justin Welby

  Support, Needs, Vulnerable

  "Archbishop of Canterbury attacks Government welfare reforms" by Edward Malnick, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 9, 2013.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.

  Douglas Hyde

  Character, Helping, Celtic

  8 Copy quote

• The day Caleb touched my hand and I saw all those things, I was excited. Yes, a little freaked but excited more. I felt like...everything I ever needed was right there. I still feel like that. It's not something you can just turn off and I wouldn't want to. I want him more than I need him.

  Shelly Crane

  Hands, Want, Littles

  4 Copy quote

• I felt like the track came to us, but then it went beyond us.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Track

  14 Copy quote

• I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address.

  Rebecca

  Mistake, Years, Editors

  4 Copy quote

• I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

  Karin Slaughter

  Children, Thinking, People

  12 Copy quote

• From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and felt convinced, that while it lasted, this country would never be free or happy. In consequence, I determined to apply all the powers which my individual efforts could move, in order to separate the two countries.

  Theobald of Bec

  Country, Moving, Individual Effort

  4 Copy quote

• I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

  Don Cornelius

  School, Musical, Trying

  8 Copy quote

• I feel as healthy as I've ever felt.

  Sanya Richards-Ross

  Healthy, Feels

  4 Copy quote

• Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Years, Joy, Abuse

  6 Copy quote

• I know how it feels to be completely alone and helpless, and the last thing you want to hear in that situation is, 'It's going to be OK.' "The only thing that seems to really help is that someone else who has felt that low expressing those feelings to you.

  Amy Lee

  Feelings, Want, Lasts

  23 Copy quote

• My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Swings, Wind, Mind

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2011). “Following Christopher Creed”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• New York, oh my God, in my early 20s. I felt, this is home, this is really where I belong.

  June Squibb

  New York, Home, Early 20s

  "84 years an actor". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it's also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?

  Grace Helbig

  Love Is, Young Love, Ridiculous

  Grace Helbig (2014). “Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Meditation, Posture, Backbends

  47 Copy quote

• I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, The Artist is Present, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.

  Joan Smalls

  Beautiful, Art, Museums

  4 Copy quote

• It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's natural to one's health, but with addiction in my blood I play the cards I was dealt.

  Macklemore

  Struggle, Live Life, Blood

  4 Copy quote

• I came from a Hindi medium school the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, School, College

  15 Copy quote

• And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

  Osamu Dazai

  Soul, Might, Rooms

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an exhausted, lonely kneeling woman who wore a checked patterned yukata after the tradegy of a large earthquake. With the intensity of my chest ready to burn up, I fell in love with that poor woman. I also felt a horrifying desire for her. Maybe tragedy and desire are back to back to one another.

  Osamu Dazai

  Lonely, Earthquakes, Waiting

  13 Copy quote

• I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Nba, Helping, Chance

  14 Copy quote

• Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

  Yael Naim

  Song, People, Way

  7 Copy quote

• I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

  Lykke Li

  Dolphins, Connections, Understood

  29 Copy quote