Impulse Quotes · Page 53

I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the…

— Cornel West

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states…

— Jamake Highwater

I am a superior form of human and I have absolutely no quirks or irrational impulses of any kind.

— Dave Barry

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the…

— Victor Hugo

If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the…

— Richard Dawkins

I think, the argument sometimes that I've had with folks who are much more interested in sort of race-specific programs is less…

— Barack Obama

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have…

— Maya Angelou

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or…

— Patti Smith

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.

— Deepak Chopra

In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get…

— Barack Obama

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette;…

— Henry James

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

— John Lanchester

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize…

— Joseph Sobran

The everyday brain could be dubbed "the baseline brain," because it operates at the minimum functioning to keep you alive and healthy.…

— Deepak Chopra

I honestly think the impulse is to grab something and capture it, and not capture a moment that you want to remember,…

— Tyler Hoechlin

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

— Philip Larkin

The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well…

— Rob Sheffield

Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport…

— Mark Kurlansky

When you think about it, when you're single you are not deprived in any way - if anything, it's a pretty self-indulgent…

— Renee Zellweger

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

— William James

I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit,…

— Anita Shreve

My initial impulse was to be an entertainer, a song and dance man.

— Denis Lawson

Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world…

— Victoria Laurie