“I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.” PeopleIfsLoveKindTwoFeelingsFeltSleepWonderfulTerribleWasteBetrayalObsessionRelievedAffinity Author:Leonard Cohen
“My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.” TwoSchoolHouseFeltRichDadHigh SchoolMy DadSecureParksBedroomBathsPrintingSalesmanMinnesota Author:Al Franken
“A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.” PeopleYearsStillsTwoDoneEnoughFeelingsGovernmentRememberLyingLeftGivenFeltCitiesHavensWasteIgnorantDamageTwo YearsHurricanesDevastatedKatrinaAmerican CitiesHurricane Katrina Author:AnnaLynne McCord
“Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.” TwoFeelingsNightHouseFeltBlackCasesBearsStonesHuntersExhilarationVermontBrotherly Author:Edward Hoagland
“I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.” LittlesTwoDifferentMightMovingScienceSocialFeltCommonRaceMoralGroupsSocietyOceanIntellectualScientistSouthClimateCommunicateIncomePsychologicalEarningIdenticalChelsea Author:C.P. Snow
“The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's bicycle cement, stretched with muslin they'd sewn on their sister's sewing machine in their own backyard on Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio, soar into the air above the dunes and the wide beach at Kitty Hawk.” FirstsTwoTogetherFeltAirStreetsMachinesSticksWideBeachSoarMechanicBicycleSisterDecemberOhioBackyardsHawksCementSewingKittiesHomemadeChilly Book:The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy Source: The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy
“Winding her arms close around his neck, she closed her eyes. To be embraced, safe in a man's arms when she had never expected it to happen again, this would be enough.Time sheltered their embrace, enfolding them within a summer scented capsule that felt endless and theirs alone. The fragrance of grass and sunlight and nearby water sweetened each breath. Theirs was the music of birds ans the lazy buzz of insects and the beating of two hearts. Yes, she thought, she didn't need more. This would be enough.” MenNeedsHeartTwoEnoughHappensWould BeEyeFeltWaterArmsSafeSummerBirdBreathsEmbraceExpectedEndlessGrassNecksLazySunlightHer EyesInsectsFragranceEnough TimeBuzzTwo Hearts Author:Maggie Osborne
“I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.” TwoFeltFearSunSkyWalkingRedLoudMelancholyScreamBloodyTremblingFrightUnendingPiercingsTwo FriendsSun Set Author:Edvard Munch
“This is advertising that is designed not to look or feel like advertising at all. The one thing we felt we got parents to agree with was that if their children ask them questions about enlisting, they had an obligation to, one, engage, and then two, be informed.” IfsFeelsLooksChildrenTwoAsksFeltParentOne ThingAgreeObligationAdvertisingEnlisting Author:Edward Boches
“A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'” IfsFeelsHeartSaidTwoSuccessFightingWinningFeltTalkingMy HeartWords Of WisdomViolentNativeCompassionateGrandfatherNative AmericanGrandsonVengefulTwo Wolves Author:Black Hawk
“Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.” ShouldKindChildrenTwoTogetherYoungFunFeltParentEatingDaughterSittingBuiltRoundsHaving FunParksSaturdayDaddyMerryBenchesPeanutsDisneylandChildren And ParentsAnimatorTwo DaughtersTheme ParksMerry Go RoundParks And RecreationSitting On The Bench Author:Walt Disney
“There are two types of pain, the one that breaks you and the one that changes you. In the gym, pain is felt as a result of weakness leaving the body. Physical pain is the glue of transformation and the pain of progress. The more you endure the harder it gets to accept the thought of failure.” TwoBodyPainFeltResultsAcceptingBreakProgressTypeWeaknessHarderTransformationEndureLeavingGymGluePhysical Pain Author:Greg Plitt
“An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great oof of relief. This is just as true of Byron, or of such Byrons of their days as Kipling and Hemingway: after a generation or two the world is tired of being their pedestal, shakes them of with an oof, and then - hoisting onto its back a new world-figure - feels the penetrating satisfaction of having made a mistake all its own.” MenWorldGivingFeelsMadeSaidTwoFeltMistakeGenerationsFiguresWeightDiedIntelligentTiredSatisfactionShakesReliefNew WorldMade A MistakePedestalIntelligent ManByronKipling Author:Randall Jarrell
“Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: "With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!” HeartTwoBodyLightFeltDarkWifeSweetKissingEarsMalesDearWarmBonesConquerDryWormsEroticSweet KissesDry Bones Book:the Odyssey a Modern Sequel Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel
“I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your emotions on something immediately available for your understanding: you make your understanding out of the emotions you have about it. The second is to feel in the sense of being affected without trying to understand: something is felt, you do not know what, and it is more important to feel it than to try to understand it, since once you try to understand it you no longer feel it.” KnowsFeelsTryingFirstsKindTwoImportantFeelingsFeltUnderstandingEmotionAvailableAffectedStanding OutConcentratingUnderstanding You Author:Laura Riding
“I've always said that movies are kind of like love affairs. Two people come together, and if they're at the right place at the right time and it's the right situation, it clicks. I've always felt that I've connected with screenplays. It's the romantic in me.” PeopleIfsKindSaidTwoTogetherFeltSituationAffairConnectedRight TimeRight PlaceLove AffairScreenplaysClicksLike Love Author:Robert Zemeckis
“It felt as if I was suddenly walking around in wet socks, weighing my feet down as if two kids were sitting on my feet with their legs wrapped around mine.” IfsTwoKidsFeltFeetMinesWalkingSittingLegsWetSockWeighing Author:David Bowick
“Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.” ThinkingTwoHardProblemThreeFeltHoursProduceStrangeSevereThree TimesFatigueBreakdown Author:Stanislaw Ulam