Stirring Emotions Quotes

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

To be a little divisive is kind of hot.

For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.

I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.

My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.

I decided to make one of the most controversial songs that I could. I want to get under people's skin.

Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody minds a boring picture, they mind a picture that has gotten to the soft core.

I think, as long as people have a strong opinion, whether they love or hate us, I think we're doing something right.

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.

It's fun to be the guy that can be so polarising and have that effect on so many different people.

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.

I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music.

You fog the mind, you stir the soul.

I like to rattle cages.

I naturally want to be provocative.

We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible.

I think if you're not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring.

I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.