The impulse to write the poem, that impulse is a great dramatic impulse. But hell, anybody could write a play. I do… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be liked. It's a basic human impulse for some of you, and that explains the turn-on-a-dime hypocrisy from people… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Pinocchio's really naughty. He's all impulse: 'I want to sleep now. I want to eat that. I want to run off to… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
What's the impulse behind art? It's saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see my students, especially the ones with a gift for the lyrical, reaching far outside the realm of their own… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel.… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse. — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices. They tend to respond automatically, blindly influenced by their… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
There can be no sexual love without lust; but, on the other hand, until the currents of lust in the organism have… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
