The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
A lot of brands, you can't touch them. When you're dealing with Snoop Dogg, he brings you closer to the brand and it feels like it's a part of you.
Sometimes having no money for a long time feels like a voice inside your head that grows louder and more obnoxious the longer you're without it.
Every single ounce of pain focused on the left part of the head. Feels like whole body except left part of head is in fucking numb state.
One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
the cocoon like water, the labored trance and rhythmic breath of lap swimming had done their work, had unwound the restless feeling into nothingness.
The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them.
It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.
When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.
When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.
If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.
While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.
Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' are antiquated. Modern women should feel free to experiment.
I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteous...
I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.
Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.
I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance.
