Felt Quotes

• Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dirty, Patriotic, Naughty

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 21, § 255, 2007.

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• The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hurt, Essence, Good Man

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.160, Routledge

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• I think that the way that Steve Jobs sought after love was to create products that people loved. And when people loved his products, in turn they - he felt like they loved him.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Actor Ashton Kutcher Sits Down with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo Today". "Closing Bell" with Maria Bartiromo, www.cnbc.com. August 6, 2013.

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• When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. They planted groves and walks of Plantanes, where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air. Of course, it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Air, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.395, Penguin

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• Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Thinking, Actors

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• The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder life, air life, earth life, sun life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator is the root meaning of religion.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dark, Men, Roots

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.147, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Morning, Fire

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• Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.

  Gerry Cooney

  Growing Up, Men, Winning

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

  Burl Ives

  Spring, Wind, Long

  Burl Ives (2017). “Wayfaring Stranger”, p.120, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

  Joanna Lumley

  Social, Constraints

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• I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Suicide, Ideas, Solitude

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.

  Leo Fitzpatrick

  Stupid, Artist, Years

  "Leo Fitzpatrick, Unlimited". Interview with Ana Finel Honigman, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 16, 2011.

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• I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.

  Andy Serkis

  Country, Patriotic, People

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. Kanuary 27, 2003.

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• I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

  Dave Chappelle

  Way, Showing Up, Awful

  "Dave Chappelle: 'I Wasn't Crazy'" by Bootie Cosgrove-Mather, www.cbsnews.com. February 3, 2006.

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• I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

  Bai Ling

  Beautiful, Eye, Long

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2006.

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• I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people. I was never quite as groomed as everyone else, never quite as fit as anyone else. I didn't have my protein shake and my vitamins.

  Ashley Jensen

  People, Never Quit, Vitamins

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• So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.

  Tom Johnson

  Loss, Self Worth, Darkness

  "Stress, depression and the CEO" by Rhonda Rowland, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2002.

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• [On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger beast eats and claws at its middle. God-awful things were hiding underneath my bed, and it was no use telling me they were not there - I knew they were, and felt their dreadful ever-changing shapes.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Pain, Addiction, Shapes

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• men will have to resign themselves to the fact that the old-time saloon, for men only, will never again exist. Once a woman has felt a brass rail under her instep, there can be no more needlepoint footstools for her.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Drinking, Men, Facts

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has nothing to do with facts at all. You can get those anywhere. It's the feelings of childhood that you need to know.

  Judy Delton

  Childhood, Feelings, Needs

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• I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Country, Brother, Father

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.

  Willard Scott

  Children, Insecure, Only Child

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• One of my earliest memories is being backstage at Bran Nue Dae in Darwin when I was about eight. Its such a fun, happy show and a real celebration of being Aboriginal... it felt really great and achievable as a career. It all felt normal.

  Shari Sebbens

  Fun, Memories, Real

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• There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.

  Max Hastings

  Responsibility, Media, Doubt

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• As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

  Tom Wopat

  Song, Voice, Gone

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