I Felt Quotes

#1. Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day.

Harry Kemp

#2. There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

Sherman Alexie

#3. There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

Tasha Smith

#4. I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'

Dave Gahan

#5. You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.

Jack Nicholson

#6. People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

Bobby Bowden

#7. It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the real world.

Rosamund Hodge

#8. I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

Brad Garrett

#9. I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

Angelina Jolie

#10. I felt a crack in my defenses - a weak place where truth knifed and twisted and pried for an opening

Julianne Donaldson

#11. My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

Anna Kendrick

#12. I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

Jane Campion

#13. He doesn't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture - that we keep them because we might want to read them again. And because they remind us of how we felt when we read them.

Paula Marantz Cohen

#14. I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

Andrew Stanton

#15. I was always incredibly driven and found it impossible to relax. I felt that if I slacked off for a minute to enjoy myself, then so many things would be missed.

Sandra Bullock

#16. As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

Tom Wopat

#17. I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.

Anthony Trollope

#18. Having been familiar with "drunk" once or twice myself, that lick just came to me - and yeah, it sounded very drunk, so I presented it to Alice [Cooper]. It felt like he wrote the lyrics in about a minute.

Johnny Depp

#19. The whole New Kids thing was crazy. The more it grew, the more I just felt like I was trapped.

Jonathan Knight

#20. I didn't apply to any colleges - I lied to all my friends and told them I was going to UCSD, because all their parents would be like, 'Mark, where're you going to college?' and I'd just lie 'cause I felt it was unrealistic to be an actor.

Mark Ruffalo

#21. I had gone far in search of the sun, and the sun, found at last, was hostile to me. And if I were to fling myself off a cliff? While I was making such rather grim speculations, considering these pines, these rocks, these waves, I suddenly felt how bound I was to this lovely, accursed universe.

Emil M. Cioran

#22. When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.

Warren Moon

#23. As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.

Kevin Allen

#24. I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

Jeremy Northam

#25. With love everything is bought, everything is saved. If even I, a sinful man, just like you, was moved to tenderness and felt pity for you, how much more will God be. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#26. I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a job in a shoe store, sell real estate, or what? I was really depressed by the whole thing, because I felt like a painter, yet I couldn't make paintings.

Ralph Goings

#27. Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

Dave Parker

#28. I felt his gaze, I heard his moan,
And knew his hunger as my own.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#29. I felt [It Runs in the Family] it was a picture that, after I'm gone, my family would like to see it. It was a wonderful mixture of people in my family.

Kirk Douglas

#30. The Reverend Chapman wrote later. I think none was afraid to meet God, but we all felt willing to put it off until a more propitious time . . .

David McCullough

#31. I was thirty-seven years old and wearing nothing but a butt plug. But there was a 1940's film-star Toby, looking about to spontaneously combust from sheer desire. It was probably hysterical postpubescent hormones, but still, it felt so good. So ridiculously good.

Alexis Hall

#32. I assumed it was perfect, that everyone was happy and beautiful and wanted for nothing, and in my numb, limited way I felt envy and wanted to eat them all the more

Isaac Marion

#33. I felt like laundry in a washing machine, when all I wanted was to be put on and become her favourite shirt.

Isabelle Ronin

#34. I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.

Hank Stram

#35. I wanted to forget you, too," Sage said morosely. "Even now, I still do. With you right here in front of me. Even after last night. It still hurts to think about when you left. How it felt to be so alone. How much I don't want to care about you anymore.

Sibylla Matilde

#36. We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.

Sarah Caldwell

#37. Here and there, alone, reflecting, I'd bump up against what felt like a buffer zone between me and some vast reserve of grief, but its reinforcements were sturdy enough and its construction solid enough to prevent me from really ever smelling its air, feeling its wind on my face.

John Darnielle

#38. I always loved running ... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Jesse Owens

#39. I've always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I'm perfect proof.

Yogi Berra

#40. I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

Emily Mortimer

#41. I felt total bad about it, and empty. Granpa said he knew how I felt, for he was feeling the same way. But Granpa said everything you lost which you had loved give you that feeling. He said the only way round it was not to love anything, which was worse because you would feel empty all the time.

Forrest Carter

#42. The kiss was meaningful. The kisses I had shared with Jayden weren't meaningful. They were full of lies. His kisses made me felt like we weren't meant to be together, but when I kissed Sean it was like we were supposed to be together.

Jessica Madden

#43. I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn't make them feel judged. 'Skins' never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that's what sets 'Skins' apart.

Kaya Scodelario

#44. Because I'd rather feel guilty for the rest of my life than for her to have felt a second's fear.

Rosamund Lupton

#45. I love you," I told him. "And all of this, our life, is everything I wished to have but wasn't sure I could keep. I never felt like that with Alex, James. I always knew that what we shared wouldn't last. He never belonged to me. Not the way you do.

Megan Hart

#46. I felt truly happy for the first time in years. Such moments should be logged and noted.

William Boyd

#47. When I've mentioned things that I thought only happened to me, or thoughts that I felt had only had crossed my mind, the audience response indicated that they seemed to have happened to, or been thought of by many people.

Franklyn Ajaye

#48. I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#49. I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

Tim O'Brien

#50. Prayer cannot truly be taught by principles and seminars and symposiums. It has to be born out of a whole environment of felt need. If I say, "I ought to pray," I will soon run out of motivation and quit; the flesh is too strong. I have to be driven to pray.

Jim Cymbala

#51. Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.

Sarah Dessen

#52. Do you know how terrible I felt when Marcus came down and found me sitting there like a turd?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#53. I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

Robert Bly

#54. I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

Colin Wilson

#55. For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.

Sarah Dessen

#56. Have you ever felt like you could walk through Hell and not get burned, or jump in a shark tank, causing the Great Whites to walk on land?... That's how I feel...like the baddest motherfucker that ever wore human skin." --Charlie Higgins 'Irish Demon

Jason E. Felts

#57. I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

Harmony Korine

#58. I don't even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it.

J.D. Salinger

#59. I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

Walter Kirn

#60. I've never had a home before." That must have been all the sweets talking; I'd never have told him otherwise. "I mean, staying with Li, I never felt like I belonged. That's all."
Sam touched my wrist, making me shiver. "You always have a home with me.

Jodi Meadows

#61. I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.

Paul Henreid

#62. At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.

Clive Sinclair

#63. I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.

Jenny Agutter

#64. You feel so good sweetheart. I swear nothing's ever felt better in my whole fucking life.

R.K. Lilley

#65. I always had an inferiority complex, like I wasn't good enough. I was shy. But dancing gave me so much joy, and I was good at it. I felt like a whole person because I could dance.

Patricia McBride

#66. I have never felt so close to someone I have never met.

Fiona Gold Kroll

#67. I felt sad, happy, content.

Akhil Sharma

#68. I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

Lynne Rae Perkins

#69. '300' was a real turning point in my career. Until then, I felt like a steam train that was slowly chugging to the top of a hill. Now I'm over that hill, my career seems to have its own momentum.

Gerard Butler

#70. In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different.

Lisa Cholodenko

#71. Eternity, I repeated, the words burning into my brain, so much so it felt we'd made some form of sacred and unbreakable bond.

Tima Maria Lacoba

#72. I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

Mark Burnett

#73. For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.

Kate Bush

#74. Invincible is never how I felt, but optimistic ... yes.

Frank Lowy

#75. I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.

Deepak Chopra

#76. I leaned against the carved banisters and listened to the music and felt quite different from any way I have ever felt before
softer, very beautiful and as if a great many men were in love with me and I might very easily be in love with them.

Dodie Smith

#77. I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.

Morley Safer

#78. I felt like there was a certain standard that we held 'Strangers' to, so I think about that whenever I work on something.

Paul Dinello

#79. I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.

Bob Woodward

#80. I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

Helen Thomas

#81. I've been surrounded by a lot of people who felt that external success would result in them feeling good about themselves. But it just seems extremely unfulfilling to me.

Alanis Morissette

#82. When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

William Shatner

#83. I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.

Chip Conley

#84. The part that I felt most comfortable with going in was just working with actors and trying to make them feel comfortable and safe so they could find the performance. That part felt organic to me.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#85. I've never ... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#86. The conventional wisdom of fandom is that you must give your fans anything they want. But I've never felt that that's a healthy attitude - and that comes from being a Star Wars fan.

DJ Shadow

#87. The scars weren't overly red, but faded, some just light lines on my skin. Some of them I could cover with makeup, while others would never truly disappear. I felt like they completed me. A reflection of the way I felt inside.
Lo The Wild Hunt

Ashley Jeffery

#88. I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it was the job for me.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#89. I tend to think too much, Bast. My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do
what I did.

Patrick Rothfuss

#90. I've always felt there is something sacred in a piece of paper that travels the earth from hand to hand, head to head, heart to heart.

Robert Michael Pyle

#91. When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

Lana Del Rey

#92. I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

Colin Firth

#93. Maybe, because all these good people loved me enough to help me, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as I felt. Maybe there was a part of me that was worthy of their love.

Piper Kerman

#94. Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic and had to go to special-ed every day and felt stupid about that and got very witty to defend myself.

Dax Shepard

#95. I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time.

Tori Kelly

#96. I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.

Katharine Weymouth

#97. Whenever I finished filming a movie, I felt my job was only half done. Every film had to be nurtured in the marketplace. You can have the greatest movie in the world, but if you don't get it out there, if people don't know about it, you have nothing.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#98. What is grace? I'm not certain; all I know is that my heart felt like a spike, and then, in that room, it opened and felt like an umbrella.

Tom Junod

#99. I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.

Asa Gray

#100. When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

Chris Ofili