emotional trigger Quotes

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.

Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.

I don't get a chance to cry that often on film, so I was hoping that talent would come my way, that day. I cheated, I guess, when I just started looking at my technology device - my iPhone - to look at pictures of my kids, before I did the scene where I had to cry. That was a good trick that I found.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Wrestling is one of those things that make me emotional.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.

If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can't listen to it without filling up.

A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.

And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

'Pop' is not a bad word. What's more interesting than changing the chemistry in a room in three minutes with a song?

I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.

But it was smell that carried memory.

I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

I can't act without music very well.

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.