I don't know why it is, but I do like dancing in the extreme situations. I like that noise, I like that… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four… — Paul Verhoeven Copy Share Image
My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Intuition and instinct form the bedrock of our decision-making, especially the rapid-fire decisions that make up our daily lives. We don’t have… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Whenever we need to make a very important decision it is best to trust our instincts, because reason usually tries to remove… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I put a lot of pressure on myself to figure out what to say and, lately, I've started trying to work through… — Steve Gunn Copy Share Image
I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup,… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
That's instinct, you catch and you shoot. I've done it hundreds of thousands of times in my driveway. It's what I've practiced. — John Paxson Copy Share Image
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually,… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
Eventually we must lower our defenses and just trust our instincts. Trust your gut and just let things happen. Trust that your… — Wendell V Copy Share Image
One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
“She’s unhinged something inside of me. That primal instinct to possess and protect. And hell, if it doesn’t scare the shit out… — C.M. Seabrook Copy Share Image
I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together.… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right!… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
