Spontaneous Quotes · Page 9

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.

— Stanley Elkin

The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers

— William S. Burroughs

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

— Erma Bombeck

I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it.

— Shawn Mendes

We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.

— Lee Ranaldo

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

— Bill Eppridge

Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.

— Kevin Moffett

The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real…

— Stewart Lee

The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and…

— William Stringfellow

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced…

— Isadora Duncan

There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden...…

— G. Stanley Hall

The really useful education is that which follows the direction of the child's own instinctive interests, supplying knowledge for which it is…

— Bertrand Russell

I think the Europeans are a lot more spontaneous, more artistic to some degree. But I don't think they have the technical…

— Lee Van Cleef

If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read…

— David Elkind

TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV…

— Marshall McLuhan

Sometimes the most powerful way to teach our children to understand a doctrine is to teach in the context of what they…

— Cheryl A. Esplin

When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked…

— Alan Brien

The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the…

— Joseph Campbell

[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once……

— George Wald

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services…

— Herbert Marcuse

Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural,…

— David Fontana

The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest,…

— Allen Ginsberg

[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.

— Gillian Anderson

You may be caught off guard forcing you to be spontaneous. For once go with it, you'll actually enjoy yourself.

— Anonymous

The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children.

— Ian Stevenson

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

— Michele Bachmann

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

— Deepak Chopra

I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great…

— Eugene Green

“when describing children with Down's Syndrome, he called a child 'heart spontaneous'.”

— Andrew Solomon

I wanted to create a more spontaneous outlet for my songwriting to have alongside the more long-winded process of making an album.…

— Jens Lekman

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear…

— Cathy Rigby

Find Eloy. Smack his head into a wall, dance on his guts... I'd get creative. Spontaneous like.

— Kim Harrison

I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,'…

— Ritchie Blackmore

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. --Arnold H. Glasow

— Anonymous

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

— Bo Derek

If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous.

— Chade-Meng Tan

I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act…

— John Leguizamo