Instinct Quotes · Page 23

Language is an art, like brewing or baking… It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

— Charles Darwin

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

— Salman Rushdie

I can't stand the idea of missing something. I've got to know what's going on - it's like an animal instinct with…

— John Fairchild

“Heated is what you get when you rub faith and instinct together.”

— Cornelia DeDona

I know jumping to conclusions isn't good, but a gut feeling is usually right.

— Anonymous

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

— Finley Peter Dunne

“The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.”

— George Everett Macdonald

Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.

— Nicole Trunfio

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a…

— Sonya Levien

He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled…

— James Dashner

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing…

— David Leavitt

You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into…

— Walter Lippmann

I'm missing something, aren't I?" "Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours." "Tell him…

— Anonymous

'Saturday Night Live' is a very particular beast. What it celebrates are individuals who can stand out. I did good work there,…

— Chris Parnell

I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that.…

— Sufjan Stevens

I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing…

— Shawn Colvin

What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But…

— Timothy Leary

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew…

— George Bird Evans

I was lucky to be in a household where whatever I wanted to do was supported and my music was always such…

— Zella Day

We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's…

— Darell Hammond

Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and…

— Daniel Silva

You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you…

— Emily Meade

A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence…

— Charles Darwin

Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to…

— Jeff Daniels

I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.

— Katie Leung

Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you.

— Richard Branson

To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it.

— Anonymous

“That sort of overintellectualization obscures the patterns of the Wild Woman and the instinctual nature of women.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“Fear is a deeply ancient instinct, in other words, and an evolutionarily vital one... but it ain't especially smart.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

— Michel de Montaigne

When she offered me 'Arshinagar,' Aparna's interpretation of 'Romeo & Juliet,' my first instinct was to say no.

— Waheeda Rehman

A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

— Victor Hugo

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I am someone who takes a lot of time before making a decision and then has to be fully behind it.

— Manuel Neuer

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

— William James

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

— Marilyn Monroe

“As an instinct told her which way to turn, her wisdom told her that it will be a long path to manifest.”

— Sarah Pussell

This instinct to be a killer in front of goal, it's not natural to me, even if I work for it.

— Kingsley Coman

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

— Lance Reddick

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

— Bjork