One of the things I wanted to do after three, prolonged movies is to do something that was really, kind-of knee-jerk decisions,… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
“The way I see it, our natural human instinct is to fight or flee that which we perceive to be dangerous. Although… — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“Always heed a warning," my father used to say. Your gut instinct will tell you when something doesn't feel right, but your… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate.… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“No, because of instinct. You can tell who to trust. People can, just like animals. We don’t listen as well as they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the mother herself kills her son she goes against her own nature, against her own instinct. People talk about 'choice', but… — Jim Caviezel Copy Share Image
One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later… — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can… — Dino De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it's possible to extract some wisdom… — Libby Copeland Copy Share Image
The people's instincts are still right. You see them come to the rescue of someone-a child who falls down a well-hundreds of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
If you're young and inexperienced you might accept what people tell you, that everything's going to be fine, it's okay. It's usually… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
“Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When someone is in a state of flow, that person's brain is not thinking about anything - it's just processing things through… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead,… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's… — William James Copy Share Image
I think comedy is so much easier to do on the page than it is in real life. When I'm writing, comedy… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a professional manager? It's… — Safra A. Catz Copy Share Image
I think the American people have a generous instinct. They understand that we're a nation of immigrants. But if those folks are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Why do we focus on certain things at the expense of others? We will risk our lives to save a person from… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image