Quotes About Response

What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.

I was perhaps moreover a little the dupe of that illusion of lovers that the beloved object must , somehow, respond, that an extremity of love not only merits but compels some return.

It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.

Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

And he paused, aware at last of the gathering weight of the silence. Fourteen images stared at him, without any of them offering a word in response. Bakst said sharply, You have talked of freedom. You have it! Then, uncertainly, he said, Isn't that what you want?

What then, I thought to myself, madam, if I were utterly without Laws, as humans are? What if I could make no clear decision on what response to make to some given set of conditions? It would be unbearable and I do not willingly think of it.

Naturally, trouble makes for greater drama than does happiness, and it asks for more in the way of human response

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

You must see a psychiatrist, son, she often suggested, and get help with your problems; you can overcome the flaws in your character; but Timothy's response was that without the flaws he would not have any character left.

Me propuso matrimonio al conducirme al aeropuerto. Le contesté lo que se espera de una respetable dama madura: De casarse, nada, pero si estás dispuesto a viajar con frecuencia a California, podemos ser amantes, ¿qué te parece? Pobre hombre... ¿qué me podía contestar? Que sí, claro.

Sometimes you really rely on the audience to have a good time playing live, and sometimes you could have zero people or a thousand, and you'd feel exactly the same.

I have been overwhelmed by the response to 'The Queen of Zombie Hearts.'

When you watch zombie movies, and people say, 'What's going on? What are we going to do?' it's like they live in a world where they've never seen zombie movies.

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

When necessity speaks, it demands.

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!), "I trust you; do what you must," life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.

If called by a panther Don't anther.

Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, "Be fruitful, and multiply." But not in those words.