Quotes About Impulse

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.

O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred impulse over silver tides The dreamy way To me.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression.

It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start thinking about what would happen if I stepped off, the rush of the fall, the shattering collision, the quiet emptiness of death. Part of me wants to experience the thrill of complete surrender...

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

I often cannot believe the things I do.

Always go with your gut. Overthinking things has ruined more good dreams than I don't know what.

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I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

Kid, sobriety's like a hard-on; the minute you get it, you want to fuck with it.

Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos.

masturbating but did not. He didn't reject the idea so much

How much must a person want out, to put his head in a microwave oven? A dim woman all the kids had known of in Boaz had put her cat in a microwave to dry it after a tick-bath and set the oven just on Defrost and the cat ended up all over the woman's kitchen's walls. How would you rig the thing so it would activate with the door open? Is there just some sort of refrigerator-light button you could hold down and secure with tape? Would the tape melt?

I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.

what ho, apothecary!

He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot blood, and hot blood beget hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love.

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

Tempt not a desperate man

Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the hearts of desperate men!

In our own fevered, changing, and precarious age, where all is in flux and nothing is accepted, we must survey with respect a period when, with only three hundred thousand soldiers, widespread peace in the entire known world was maintained from generation to generation, and when the first pristine impulse of Christianity lifted men's souls to the contemplation of new and larger harmonies beyond the ordered world around them.

The war impulse of Italy has been destroyed, and that unhappy country is paying a terrible penalty for allowing itself to be misled by false and criminal guides. How much easier it is to join bad companions than to shake them off!