Reactions Quotes - Page 27

• I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it- that last stage- you have to show it to somebody else to hopefully get a rise or reaction out of them- [to see] if it’ll affect someone else.

  Frank Iero

  Art, Lasts, Like You

  Interview with Molly Louise Hudelson, circlesandsoundwaves.com. September 6, 2014.

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• 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

  Book, Thinking, Written

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

  Hedrick Smith

  Issues, Personality, Television

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• Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Children, Jumping

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• History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  Gretel Ehrlich (1989). “Heart Mountain”, Vintage

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• Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Loyalty, Sports, Boxing

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

  Rufus Choate

  Power, Liable, Extremes

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• Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Fighting, Fire

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.

  Susan Faludi

  Book, Responsibility, Fighting

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• But who knows their own child? You know bits - certain predictable reactions, a handful of familiar qualities. The rest is impenetrable. And quite right too. You give birth to them. You do not design them.

  Penelope Lively

  Children, Giving, Design

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• Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the ante, to provide stronger and stronger stimulants. Or try to provide them, since both the manner, the naming of parts and the few inexpressive four-letter words, and the matter, are narrowly limited.

  Storm Jameson

  Trying, Stronger, Matter

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• Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Civilization, Doe, Lapses

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• Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

  Audre Lorde

  Attitude, Anger, Racism

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.129, Crossing Press

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• Everyone knew fear. It was the reaction that made the difference. Some people hated fear and avoided the experience. Some people endured it as a necessity. And some people became addicted to the rush.

  Janet Evanovich

  Fear, Differences, People

  Janet Evanovich (2009). “Metro Girl”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.

  Sue Grafton

  Writing, Eye, Self

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• the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we are today. ... You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

  Jenny Lawson

  Want, Who We Are, Today

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• In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Laughter, Mind, Theatre

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• As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Creativity, Long, Creative

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.

  Yoshijiro Umezu

  Army, Navy, Elements

  "The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb" by Dennis Wainstock, (p. 107), 1996.

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• Every action has equal and opposite reaction. This is law of the universe and spares none. Wrong done and injustice inflicted is paid back in the same coin. No one has escaped justice of the universe. It is only a matter of time.

  Anil Sinha

  Karma, Law, Opposites

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• Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

  E. M. Delafield

  Children, Parent, Modern

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.2411, Delphi Classics

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• Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.

  Chrystos

  Depression, Sensible

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• The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Pressure, Feels

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• Like every normal person, I hate my voice. And I am not the only one who hates my voice. The voiceover gets a lot of strong reactions. A lot of people love it, and a few people truly hate it and pronounce the films are unwatchable because of my Latvian accent. But it also has a certain level of theatricality, and everything is important for a manic character.

  Signe Baumane

  Strong, Hate, Character

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, School, Thinking

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son" by Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2009.

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