Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.
As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
The only thing that ever came close to tugging my heart strings is music. I know this because that is the only time I've felt them move.
I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.
I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.
But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state.
It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.
But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.
Humanity was a passing notion to him; something he liked to try on for size and model in the dressing room, but never actually felt compelled to buy.
I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.
Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.'
I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.
