Quotes of: Instinctive Keyword

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

George Bernard Shaw

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

Henri Matisse

There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.

John O'Donohue

I can't stand the idea of missing something. I've got to know what's going on - it's like an animal instinct with me.

John Fairchild

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.

Jane Harrison

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

Alan Rickman

With a play, for me, there's no time to sit back on it. You're living on your instincts. And every night there are subtle changes and adjustments, because what's in front of you is a living, breathing audience.

Eve Myles

Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.

Jonathan Tropper

David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.

William Devane

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

Ben Hogan

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

Evelyn Glennie

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.

Ann Coulter

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

Allen Klein

Hold your venom Do you recognise the instinct in me, fellow scorpion?

Chaos of the Mind

Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.

The Destruction of the Books

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Arthur Erickson

I’ll see a cat and instinctively start petting the hair on my back.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

The Interpretation of Murder

Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts; it may be all you have to trust.

The Roman General: A Novel

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

The Lords of Discipline

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

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