Quotes About Reaction

You step in a divot or a hole you're not expecting to be there, and it can throw off your timing or your approach.

The audience has reacted well to my comic timing. But, I also have other aspects to my acting talent.

Everything is in the timing, I think. I see the ball earlier than the others so maybe that's why I have a good return.

If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange.

I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.

I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again. The title of this movie should have been 'Punch Adams!'

The only thing I regret is not winning the Premier League with Liverpool. I'll never know how that feels and experience the reaction of the city, as I did after Istanbul. It hurts because I know the people want the league title more than anything.

What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'

Stand-up keeps you on your toes because it's instant. With TV and movies, you have to wait for the numbers to come in to see what happened at the box office. With stand-up, it's right there, that night, in your face.

There's nothing quite like exiting a toilet cubicle and seeing a girl running towards you with her hand over her mouth.

Like a stone tossed into a flock of birds, talk startled swiftly into flight whenever the new postmaster was mentioned.

She didn't sound overjoyed. She didn't sound even slightly joyed.

Well fuck me sideways 'til I cry

He began to laugh again, a croaking, rasping vile sound that made me want to stop my ears with my fingers.

The people had fallen silent at the striking of the clock, the coming of the chaplain; now I heard them all start up with hisses and with hoots— that, I knew, was for the hangman. I heard the very spreading of the sound about the crowd, like oil on water.

Maybe you'll be pleased, or relieved, or — how dreadful that I don't know what you'll be. That's the problem, right there in a nutshell.

It was just she was so full of bullshit and someone needed to call her on it and...and...she reacted so beautifully.

I wasn't sure how I'd gone from feeling sorry towards Jeane to baiting her into a full-on strop-attack. It was just she was so full of bullshit and someone needed to call her on it and … and … she reacted so beautifully. You just lit the fuse, stood well back and watched her explode.

I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on.

The real action is in the enemy's reaction.

I'd like to suggest that the Golden Rule is perhaps the most potent political weapon we Christians have today. And I don't say this because I'm Anabaptist but because empathy is at the bottom of the Golden Rule. If we as Christians with a faithful witness would set the example, not by way of reaction but by way of reasoned empathy, we might set the tone for more shalom in our world.

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.

When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either "You're joking, right?" or "They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?