Pulse Quotes - Page 6

I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking and know what they'll accept from you.

Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe.

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.

Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

If you have a pulse, you're going to have pain.

Planning is not my friend. Impulse is.

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed him--Aylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right. And then they glared daggers at each other. -pg 372

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse.

Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.

De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.