Impulse Quotes - Page 5

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

If I like it, I'll buy it; pure impulse shopping.

I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

Michael Jackson is a very weird impulse. It was the exploration of something overtly pop, to the point where pop is kitsch. It's also an exaggeration when placed across from the race riots. Because again you have the police department and you have Michael Jackson.

I made Children of God because I had to make it. And with Cargo, I also felt like I had to. The impulse comes from something deep inside. Wanting to my country to be better. Because of where we are, we don't always have spaces to reflect.

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

I'm a big believer that media is an impulse business.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it.

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

I have a suicide impulse.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

I'm competing with everyone, but it's okay because they're not aware. I can't shut that impulse off. And I'm glad, because that impulse keeps me on the treadmill. If I didn't have it, I would be like, "Great! Ten minutes! I'm good." But if I'm competing, I can see what level someone's on and I can top it.

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.

There is no shame in impulse.

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.