Terry Pratchett Quotes

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

I know I probably have a lot of rage in me that I don't show. But I'm not about to wallow in it or reveal it.

Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.

I'm not a guy that shows a lot of emotion while I'm playing.

Intelligence forbids tears.

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.

I was trained to be very tough. My mom told me I shouldn't cry; I shouldn't be afraid of anything.

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

I don't really cry.

In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.

I'm not too big on feelings.

In real life, I don't cry too easily. I go numb.

I'm mostly a quiet person by nature and don't like letting my emotions come out on the field.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.