Spontaneous Quotes · Page 10

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

— Henri Bergson

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People make spontaneous decisions based on their hearts all the time. There’s so much more to relationships than just love.”

— Colleen Hoover

My husband and I were very different: I'm spontaneous and emotional; I'm loud - he was exactly the opposite. But you need…

— Rita Moreno

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and…

— Jorja Fox

I actually quite like [social media]. It's spontaneous, you don't really have to commit to it and I enjoy the interaction. Also,…

— Gordon Ramsay

I love the dynamic contrast between the spontaneous shots and the more formal, pro-rock-star photos.

— Bruce Pavitt

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

— Louis Pasteur

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love…

— Samuel Johnson

There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and…

— Nigel Gibson

Kindness isn't sacrifice so much as it is being considerate for the feelings of others, sharing happiness, the unselfish thought, the spontaneous…

— Carl Holmes

Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted,…

— Glen Duncan

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't…

— Alice Cooper

Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I…

— Matt Schulze

“I want to live as much as I can,and if people are around when I happen to get spontaneous, I can't exactly…

— Lindy Zart

This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

'WHEN two lovers are making love, and if they are both no-selves, nothingness, then a spontaneous pleasurable sensation happens. Then their body…

— Rajneesh

The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of…

— Bertrand Russell

“[L]ike most people, I like to think of myself as being spontaneous, ready for anything, fun. This is the evening’s second hard-won…

— David Rakoff

An educator should think of a child as a gardener thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by…

— Bertrand Russell

“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacing are swung--are scarcely perceptible; momentary touches of…

— George Eliot

I'm often asked, "What is your favorite moment during the 30 years you hosted [The Tonight Show]?" I really don't have just…

— Johnny Carson

Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

It's good that there is more support of diversity but there is still a lot of resistance. I never saw it as…

— Jean Paul Gaultier

I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been…

— Billy Corgan

Well organised displays of spontaneous support is one of the New Labour machine's specialities.

— John McDonnell

But she would never forget Brodick... or the spontaneous kiss he'd given her that had meant nothing to him and everything to…

— Julie Garwood

Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.

— Paul Morrissey

The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.

— Edward Albee

I like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the…

— Keira Knightley

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

— Sally Schneider

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which…

— Bertrand Russell

By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.

— Brian McKnight

You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a…

— Catherine Brady

True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

— Deepak Chopra

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

When you meet a new friend, the world has more light in it, doesn't it? Things become more spontaneous, and more full…

— Coleman Barks

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

— Herbert Marcuse

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that…

— Alanis Morissette

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

— George Bernard Shaw