The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess, and lonely, and His or Her child. God loved you no matter how crazy you felt on the inside, no matter what a fake you were; always, even in your current condition, even before coffee. God loves you crazily, like I love you. . . like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need.
I already felt disengaged with my contemporaries.
scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.
But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt. He wanted to change the rules [of chess] already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorisation and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator.
A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.
I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
I felt pressured by continuous touring.
There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me.
I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.
I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better.
writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.
If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?