With the first issue of ‘Weasel,’ I was even aware myself that I’d improved. I still have affection for my earlier stuff, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near as good as ‘Weasel.’
I love somebody who can make me laugh and be a goofball. I think it’s incredibly sexy if a guy can look uncool and completely not care. Also, somebody who likes to show affection. I show a lot of affection.
So many of us have loved ones and people we really care about, and the only time we show affection is when they are gone. I have preached at funerals, and you see loved ones who didn’t even say hello to dear ones when they were alive. Give them hugs, kisses while they are alive and need it.
I hope that maybe I am on this planet to try and spread a bit of love and affection and to try and help people to warm toward their fellow man instead of all this destruction and misery.
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
I have always got a lot of love and affection from Indian fans.
My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn’t, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love.
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
I had such a great affection and love for playing snooker.
Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it’s more important to make yourself feel good.
In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain’t exactly bad either.
Dumbo… makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.
I have nothing but the greatest respect and affection for Kevin McCarthy.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
Children require affection. That’s very important.
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that’s a need of the human condition – to look for affection or recognition or validation.
I’m not sure it’s affection for Australian or New Zealand films or not. I think it’s just that there’s something about ‘Wilderpeople’ that has really struck a chord.
It’s absolutely true that it’s almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.
Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.
People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection, and they memorized my songs in Spanish.
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She’s a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there’s no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.
Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.
I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I’m rudderless.
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.
It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.
‘Greenleaf’ has such great affection for the church.
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O’Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of humor, which is unexpected when you think of ‘The Iceman Cometh.’
Supporters – they’re where the heart is. They don’t need ‘merch.’ They don’t need to show their affection by wearing a sandwich board on their bodies, logos. No, no, no… people who support The Dream are a little bit more sophisticated than that.
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
My era was a totally different time. it was indeed a golden era as you say because something magical was there. I mean family and bonding. What more do I say? The films had a lot of warmth and affection.
My dad would do horrible things to me, but I was so desperate for his affection and his approval that I would keep coming back.
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.
I cannot match with anything for the love and affection fans extend.
When I wrote ‘Goose’ I gave my assistant my password, she locked me out of Twitter, and I wrote the book in five weeks. Sometimes I fantasise about how wonderful life would be if I went offline, but I can’t – because I really need affection and adoration from strangers!
I want the Congress to become an instrument for dialogue among the Indian people – all of us, from all corners of our great country, all religions, all ethnicities, all ages, genders and people – and for our dialogue to always be led by love and affection.
In Mumbai, I found, people practiced a showy, demonstrative kind of love, one unafraid of affection or emotion.
Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.
If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.
My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I’d love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.
It’s not just the winning I like, it’s the affection you get for winning. It’s a lovely feeling, that.
I have a particular affection for zero because it was some of my countrymen who first gave it the status of a number.
I know my parents loved me – they certainly did everything they could for me – but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly low flame.
When you’re a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
Guys make me feel secure and comfortable when I’m scared or need attention. They bring stability. And affection. And fun. And drama. You learn so much from a boyfriend. It’s hard to put into words, I guess.
Like any other entertainment medium, we must create an emotional response in order to succeed. Laughter, fear, joy, affection, surprise, and – most of all – accomplishment. In the end, triggering these feelings from our players is the true judgment of our work. This is the bottom line measurement of success.
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there’s something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
