Reactions famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.
-- Alain Resnais -
That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.
-- Alfred Bester -
Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.
-- Anna Sui -
She raised her head finally. He looked the same, but then, he always did. She'd seem him kill twice, and he betrayed no reaction at all. He was a monster, not even human. But he was her monster...
-- Anne Stuart -
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.
-- Ayya Khema -
I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
-- Barbara Hershey -
I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
-- Barry Lyga -
The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.
-- Ben Whishaw -
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
-- Bernard Berenson -
I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
-- Betty Ford -
This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.
-- Billy Corgan -
Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.
-- Bob Woodward -
Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.
-- Brian Tracy -
By looking at the difference between perceived danger and actual danger, you can fundamentally change your reaction.
-- Chris Hadfield -
Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.
-- Chrystos -
For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it.
-- Claudia Llosa -
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...
-- Clay Shirky -
We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.
-- Colin Beavan -
Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.
-- David Allen -
I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.
-- David Bezmozgis -
Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.
-- David Cook -
There are very serious forms of, and reactions to, sibling victimization.
-- David Finkelhor -
The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.
-- David Harvey -
Usually, if I think something is really funny, it doesn't get any reaction whatsoever.
-- David Sedaris -
I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
-- Dick Cavett -
It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.
-- Dieter F. Uchtdorf -
Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Non- reaction is not weakness, But Strength!
-- Eckhart Tolle -
You don't reward reaction; you reward results.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.
-- Elizabeth Janeway -
instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.
-- Ellen Goodman -
The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.
-- Emanuel Ax -
You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.
-- Emily Giffin -
I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.
-- Enya -
Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.
-- Erica Jong -
Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.
-- Erving Goffman -
The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.
-- G-Eazy -
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
-- Gavin Rossdale -
Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.
-- George Gershwin -
With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.
-- George Smoot -
In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.
-- Gladys Mitchell -
All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.
-- Gloria E. Anzaldúa -
Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can.
-- Hannah Hurnard -
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
-- Hans Hofmann -
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
-- Harrison Birtwistle -
Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.
-- Henepola Gunaratana -
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.
-- Ian Hacking -
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
-- Isaac Newton -
The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.
-- Ivan Pavlov -
When something comes up that attacks peoples beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
-- J. D. Pardo -
There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.
-- Jack Canfield -
Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's.
-- Jacob Frank -
That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.
-- Jane Krakowski -
Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.
-- Janet Reno -
And as I stood there in the hallway―alone―trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn't worth an explanation―not even a reaction. Not in your eyes.
-- Jay Asher -
I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
-- Jean Paul Gaultier -
...you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.
-- Jenny Lawson -
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
-- Jim Hodges -
As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.
-- Jim Hodges -
FEAR IS A REACTION YOU HAVE WHEN YOU’RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH
-- Jim Palmer -
I really was very impressed with DMX during the whole experience on 'Romeo Must Die.' I like working with him. I liked him. And I was very impressed with the reaction of the audience when he was in the picture.
-- Joel Silver -
Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.
-- Kathleen Dowling Singh -
The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.
-- Kathy Acker -
I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.
-- Kiana Tom -
He smiled at my reaction, the stupid smile of his that was like he knew something you didn’t. And he knew something I didn’t pretty much all the time, so it was pretty much every smile on his face.
-- Kiersten White -
The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten.
-- King Albert II -
When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.
-- Kushal Pal Singh -
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
-- Lara St. John -
People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.
-- LaToya London -
A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.
-- Little Richard -
With any actor, rather than tips, I think when you enjoy working with somebody and you enjoy what they do, I think your reaction is partly to be doing what they're doing, so you're learning all the time, whether it be sub-consciously or whether it be just through the person you enjoy working with.
-- Luke Goss -
Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.
-- Margaret Atwood -
In my experience, it’s much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one. Anyone can put on an act. But your reactions reveal what is really in your heart.
-- Mark Batterson -
Empathy in broadest sense refers to the reactions of one individual to the observed experiences of another
-- Mark H. A. Davis -
Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.
-- Mark McCormack -
A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.
-- Marsden Hartley -
I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.
-- Martina Hingis -
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.
-- Michael Behe -
My fear is if I expose myself, not so much that I'll be hurt, but that the reaction will be "Is that all there is? Is that the entirety of you? Because it's boring."
-- Michael Ian Black -
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
-- Miguel Syjuco -
Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.
-- Mika -
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
-- Nathalie Sarraute -
What you consent to can only be discovered by an uncritical observation of your reactions to life. Your reactions reveal where you live psychologically; and where you live psychologically, determines how you live here in the outer visible world.
-- Neville Goddard -
The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.
-- Nic Pizzolatto -
There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.
-- Noah Baumbach -
If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.
-- Padgett Powell -
...remind yourself that the only thing you can truly control is you - and your reaction to what the world throws at you.
-- Patrick M. Regan -
All life depends on organic reactions. A favorite saying.
-- Paul Doughty Bartlett -
Your body’s reaction to fear is the same whether you are faced with a physical threat or an emotional one.
-- Rhonda Britten -
There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.
-- Richard Artschwager
