For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied – whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. – Catherine the Great
At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn’t need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date. – Christopher Buckley
If you’re hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You’ll get the same kind of feeling and you won’t have to pay. – Bob Dole
No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It’s a thin line between celebration and menace. – Agnetha Faltskog
My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it’s not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you’re trying to express. But sometimes it’s best not to have any rhyme. – Conor Oberst
There’s a certain missing feeling, a void out there that I’m more than happy to fill. Without criticizing what’s out there now, I’m just going to do El DeBarge. – El DeBarge
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. – Emanuel Swedenborg
It’s quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate. – Chad Harbach
I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad. – Edmund Hillary
I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody. – Florence Welch
I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot. – Daniel Day-Lewis
‘Star Wars’ came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce. – Damian Loeb
I always get this feeling on my last day of work that I’m never going to work again. – David Harewood
Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that. – Charlotte Gainsbourg
I have always had this thing about moving around, and that has just remained, regardless of my physical changes. That feeling about it has never changed. – Merce Cunningham
As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss. – Matthew Hayden
I still don’t feel like I’ve made it. I can’t imagine ever feeling like I’ve made it. – Marilyn Minter
My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn’t write without feeling he was repeating himself. That’s the worst thing that can happen to a writer. – E. L. Doctorow
You never have an indifferent feeling after an audition. It’s either gone really well or really terribly. – Cassie Steele
There was a while when I was feeling like, ‘Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this’. – Eminem
The thing that’s important to know is that you never know. You’re always sort of feeling your way. – Diane Arbus
It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference. – Pankaj Mishra