I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's…

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

— Carla Gugino

It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say…

— Cate Blanchett

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be…

— Gao Xingjian

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

— David LaChapelle

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my…

— Natasha Trethewey

“Every day try to convert your reactions to responses. Reactions are always instinctive, whereas responses are always well thought of, just and right to…

— Abhishek Ratna

My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and…

— Tony Hawk

I have very human responses to things, so I had to learn to just be still.

— Mallory Jansen

I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We…

— Jill Robinson

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured.…

— Tom Stoppard

Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.

— Samuel P. Huntington

There are two responses to really awful things. One is to lament and say, "Oh my God, oh lord." And the other is to…

— James McBride

The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

— Morihei Ueshiba

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that…

— Greg Anderson

There are always proper responses, even to rude questions.

— Judith Martin