Phyllis A. Whitney Quotes

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

Music just affects people's feelings. It brings out emotions in you and makes you happy and sad.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.

Sam?" Rachel asked. "Do you know you have the saddest sad face ever?

You always want to translate as much emotion as you can, even if it's broader with bigger emotions.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if taught to do so, he can learn. Love teaches a man to show what he is feeling. Love never presupposes that it can be discerned or felt without expression.

How did it make you feel?

I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

I would far rather add a character who generates strong feelings than someone who just kind of floats along, generating medium-warmth smiles of gentle affirmation.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.