The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

“The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure principle. Cooking, clothes, beauty, and housekeeping are all compulsive…

— Germaine Greer

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and…

— Germaine Greer

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill…

— Thomas Carlyle

The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a…

— Roger Lowenstein

I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in…

— Ariana Grande

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level…

— Lusia Strus

Don't you think now is the time to be adventurous, while we're still young?

— Anonymous

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a…

— Brooke Burke

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to…

— Paul McGann

What's so great is that we're making money for AIDS in Africa. There's a lot of love and spontaneity, we're doing something creative. That's…

— Gavin Friday

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

— Bruce Campbell

Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do…

— Gore Verbinski

The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity…

— Edward Sorel

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since…

— Georgia O'Keeffe