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Quotes About Spontaneous

I never make conscious decisions.
~ Anthony Hopkins
I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.
~ Andrae Crouch
My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3.
~ Jean-Michel Jarre
The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.
~ Noam Chomsky
The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.
~ Michele Bachmann
What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.
~ Rick Riordan
Indeed, we may hypothesize that the followers' spontaneous emotional tendency to surround the leader with a personality cult is one of the characteristic signs of charisma.
~ Robert C. Tucker
Sometimes, however, it is better to play the most capricious, unpredictable move.
~ Robert Greene
I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.
~ Stephen Hawking
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.
~ Marshall McLuhan
We may be powerless to alter certain events, but we remain free to choose our attitude towards them, and it is in our spontaneous acceptance of necessity that we find our distinctive freedom.
~ Alain de Botton
Few things are as antithetical to sex as thought. Sex is instinctive, unreflexive and spontaneous, while thought is careful, uninvolved, and judgemental. To think during sex is to violate a fundamental law of intercourse.
~ Alain de Botton
You are very unexpected, do you know that?" "Is that your way of calling me stupid?" she asked wryly. "If the glove fits," he said.
~ Diana Pharaoh Francis
Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.
~ Dick Morris
All that the follower of Jesus has to do is to make sure that his obedience, following and love are entirely spontaneous and unpremeditated.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Tous les bruits de l'univers – le hurlement du vent, le ressac de la mer, le crépitement du feu, les cris des animaux, les chants et les paroles des hommes – sont les vibrations du mantra, le son du dharma spontanément manifesté.
~ Dilgo Khyentse
Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.
~ Donald Barthelme
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.
~ Ilya Prigogine
Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
He pulls me into the water so I'm sitting in the hot tub too, and my nightgown is soaked now but I don't care.
~ Jenny Han
I was the flighty one, the flibbertigibbet.
~ Jenny Han
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.
~ Jerry Saltz
That was a lot of skin for a Tuesday.
~ Erin McCarthy
Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.
~ Erma Bombeck