Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“Always heed a warning," my father used to say. Your gut instinct will tell you when something doesn't feel right, but your… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“The way I see it, our natural human instinct is to fight or flee that which we perceive to be dangerous. Although… — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
One of the things I wanted to do after three, prolonged movies is to do something that was really, kind-of knee-jerk decisions,… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can… — Dino De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later… — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
I can't make something 'useful' to me in a writing sense for a very long time. I don't have any journalistic instinct.… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that,… — Julian Sanchez Copy Share Image
How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I always wished I could go to confession. I was so full of things I couldn't name and had an instinct to… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
On 'There Will Be Blood,' I was cast at the last minute. I had 3 and a half to 4 days to… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I'm not an intimate of Donald Trump, but I have great instincts about people, and I have fairly good skill at sizing… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“...because you have been purifying your fields for many incarnations so you no longer belong in the heavy density of the third… — Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley Copy Share Image
“Why do we focus on certain things at the expense of others? We will risk our lives to save a person from… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
I think the American people have a generous instinct. They understand that we're a nation of immigrants. But if those folks are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a professional manager? It's… — Safra A. Catz Copy Share Image
I think comedy is so much easier to do on the page than it is in real life. When I'm writing, comedy… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
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