Felt Quotes

I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in terms of being professional. I didn't know anything about it. That happened later.

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

I don’t e-mail, I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail.

I had a similar year back in 1984 when I felt like I couldn't lose.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there's a lot to be said for that.

I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too.

Definitely I had a lot of times where I was really hard on myself. Really frustrated. But I never felt like I had someplace else to go. Just had to stay here and deal with this.

Phil [Wood] was very passionate. Very committed. He felt very blessed that the people that cared about him and took him aside... if he was out of line or drinking too much, being too surly.

[My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always felt a connection to that history because my mother had described it to me.

I have never felt any pain that I can remember.

Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt like Howard Hughes.

The American people, or at least the ones that I get on the subway with - they know there's a real threat out there. They felt like Iraq lessened our ability to fight that threat.

When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.'

A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.

While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.

I felt it very moving to feel his touch, and to remember that hands can also show love.

We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames

She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.

When I felt that fame - people were nosing me out - well, I moved on. I used traveling names; wigs if necessary.

The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?

In the last 20, 22 years I have sung here very often and I have always felt the affection and warmth of the Italians, and I feel very close to you.

[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about.

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?

The things we felt most are hardest to put into words. Hate is always easier to speak of than love. How shall I make love go through the sieve of words and come out something besides a pulp?

I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.

Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.

I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.

I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure.

But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.

I've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you

His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. “Love me, Elizabeth.” Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she looked at him without flinching. “I do.

When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad.