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Quotes About Visceral

The pay gap is visceral. It feels wrong and unfair. Voters are already predisposed to think Republicans are uncaring, country-club pricks. So
~ Douglas E. Richards
Mi relación con Piel Divina era secreta, al menos hasta donde la situación era controlable por mi. No quiero decir con esto que en mi circulo de amigos desconocieran mi homosexualidad, que yo llevaba con discreción pero sin ocultamiento. Lo que si desconocían era que me entendiera con un real visceralista, si bien el mas atípico de todos, un real visceralista al fin y al cabo.
~ Roberto Bolano
Todo realismo visceral era una carta de amor, el pavoreo demencial de un pájaro idiota a la luz de la luna, algo bastante vulgar y sin importancia.
~ Roberto Bolano
Where Do Emotive Responses Come From? The answer to this question is clear. Emotive responses originate in specific brain systems—sometimes in a specific region—responsible for commanding the varied components of the response: the chemical molecules that must be secreted, the visceral changes that must be accomplished, the movements of face, limbs, or whole body that are part of a particular emotion, be it fear, anger, or joy.
~ António R. Damásio
I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
~ Patricia Clarkson
I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.
~ Shawn Levy
The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.
~ Antoine Predock
We are meant not just for thin, virtual connections but for visceral, real connections to one another in this fleeting, temporary, and infinitely beautiful and worthwhile life.
~ Andy Crouch
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate.
~ John Berger
When I'm drawing - and here drawing is very different from writing or reasoning - I have the impression at certain moments of participating in something like a visceral function, such as digestion or sweating, a function that is independent of the conscious will. This impression is exaggerated, but the practice or pursuit of drawing touches, or is touched by, something prototypical and anterior to logical reasoning.
~ John Berger
When you look at pictures of people you know are dead, there is something different about the eyes. As if they anticipated their particular fate.It is a visceral recognition. I told myself I was getting too fanciful and went to bed.
~ John D. MacDonald
I felt a tightness on the skin. A visceral type of cognition that I had experienced before. But this was stronger, more immediate: the certainty of something out there, just beyond the threshold of consciousness. It was the experience of haragei.
~ John Donohue
Love is of all other the inmost, and most, visceral affection.
~ Edward Reynolds
Any time I need to be really physical, and a role requires that, you're kind of viscerally activated by being that physical in it. It takes away the thought process, which is fun.
~ Matthew Fox
He felt some visceral connection between what was happening on the screen and his own dreams and subconscious, and with his ongoing efforts to figure out the world in which he lived. And
~ Anne Rice
The elements align nicely with what we are learning about emotional trauma and the intricacies of our visceral nervous system. Breath control, rhythm, whole-body movement, narrative, social ties and cues—all of these are physical impulses that travel at the literal core of our being. Besides, he says, "people cannot rhythmically
~ John J. Ratey
People react to 'Drive' in a way that is very primal.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.
~ Anthony Burgess
I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.
~ Israel Horovitz
The controls of a skilled activity generally function below the level of consciousness on which that activity takes place. The code is a hidden persuader. This applies not only to our visceral activities and muscular skills, but also to the skill of perceiving the world around us in a coherent and meaningful manner.
~ Arthur Koestler
Men avoid women's observations by accusing us of being too visceral.
~ Audre Lorde
I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.
~ Shawn Levy
I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still be a writer without remembering why, on some visceral, emotional level.
~ Elif Batuman
Emilio] felt once more the strangely visceral thrill of trying to disprove a hypothesis he suspected was robust.
~ Mary Doria Russell