Impulse Quotes

827 quotes by 629 authors

Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she… — Jeff Daniels
Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only… — Tom Flynn
I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and… — Paula Fox
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball… — Danny Elfman
I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight. — David Eagleman
If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster. — Rupert Everett
If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or… — Rachel Dratch
When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to… — Josh Gad
And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse. — Zola Jesus
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have… — Hans Kung
Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when… — Stanley Milgram
At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound. — Dennis Covington
The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy… — Bertrand Russell
The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. — Criss Jami
Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may… — A J Muste
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse. — Zoe Kazan
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for,… — Patricia Hampl
Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if… — Cynthia Nixon
Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checkedâ€”not least by his own party, which set a continental… — Mark Gevisser
A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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