Felt Quotes

Coming back to Yes is like never having left. Even when I have not been in the band, I have always felt part of it.

I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

I had a lot of frustrations about my career. A lot of, you know, times where I felt I should've been considered for a part that I wasn't considered for.

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.

I felt free and therefore I was free.

By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again.

She was staying. A little longer. V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.

I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

"The Dream of a Common Language" by Adrienne Rich. I carried it the entire hike. On my first night, when I felt like I was in too deep, I read the first poem out loud to myself over and over.

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

I think being a Texan - we sort of have that extra fire in us as a breed. I just felt like from day one I had something to say and I wanted to make sure people heard me, and it's worked.

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

I've always felt that one of the mistakes people make is that they try to do something that is just slightly beyond their skill set, and then feel they've failed.

I felt like my vote was the vote that put [Obama] into office. It was down to one vote, and that was going to be my vote. And that may not be true, but that's how much power it felt like I had.

May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.

I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.

There was a period of time where people felt like women in the show were being exploited a little.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.

So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.

I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.

I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

If you've ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of spirit working through you.

It didn't make me glow. I felt more like I was fading away, like the world had forgotten me.

Once asked if he felt wearied by the constant onslaught of autograph seekers, actor Gregory Peck replied that he would be more worried when they stopped asking.

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.

Okay, maybe I'm not cooler than you, but I felt like I was for a second. Just let me have my moment!

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

I know it sounds silly, but disrespecting a dead writer by sitting in a chair that probably never belonged to him still felt like a risk to me. So I chickened out.

REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.

When I arrived at the point where I received public acclaim, I felt the most lowly, because I knew within myself that I had but begun to tap my inner resources.

I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.

We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much.

I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.