Top 100 Gut Quotes
#1. So maybe it was just as well that my companion was more like Mulder. A coked-out Mulder with a lot of weapons, who knew that the monsters under the bed were real and would gut you.
Karen Chance
#2. People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.
Iris Apfel
#3. I don't know if I do anything to get into character: I just go with my gut.
Jamie Blackley
#4. The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.
Ed Koch
#5. Gut reaction is not always God's path. What feels right at the moment has nearly led me down some wrong avenues.
Cindy McCormick Martinusen
#6. 188. I hated trying to figure out what was best morally, because so often that didn't jibe with my gut reaction.
Charlaine Harris
#7. Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not going to steer anyone in the wrong direction. I would always say go with your gut on any other movie set, but with Paul, I would say go with Paul's gut.
Rami Malek
#8. I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.
Mitchell Baker
#9. Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.
Kristin Cashore
#10. There are two parts to learning craftsmanship: knowledge and work. You must gain the knowledge of principles, patterns, practices, and heuristics that a craftsman knows, and you must also grind that knowledge into your fingers, eyes, and gut by working hard and
practicing.
Robert C. Martin
#11. Looking closer at human beings, it becomes clear that each of us is a world of our own. Our forehead is a breezy meadow, our elbows are arid wastelands, our eyes are salty lakes, and our gut is the most amazing giant forest ever, populated by the weirdest of creatures.
Giulia Enders
#12. Lucky's gut churned with dread. I couldn't have told them anything about Lick, about her secret meeting with Grunt. Alpha would have thrown her out - or killed her. I just hope I made the right decision.
Erin Hunter
#13. When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.
Gina Greenlee
#14. Dance you guys!" Thalia ordered. "You look stupid just standing there."
I looked nervously at Annabeth, then at the groups of girls who were roaming the gym.
"Well?" Annabeth asked.
"Um, who should I ask?"
She punched me in the gut. "Me, Seaweed Brain."
"Oh. Oh right.
Rick Riordan
#15. If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.
Jojo Moyes
#16. Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
Siobhan Fahey
#17. My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.
Olusegun Obasanjo
#18. Just staying true to yourself and staying true to your passion. Following your gut.
Brandy Norwood
#19. Thank you for your bounty, Oleander, Prince of Poisons, I think. Thank you for all that Mr. Pratt has already received, and all that my father is receiving still, as the poison twists like bramble in his gut, burns within his brain, presses like a boulder upon his heart.
Maryrose Wood
#20. There's no self-expression or joy in these joints
no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking your clothes off. Why do many people have a gut reaction to strip clubs? Because inside them, no one is having fun.
Caitlin Moran
#21. May the gods have mercy on whoever pisses them off, because Zarek and Jericho will have none for them. (Madoc)
You'd better be glad I'm flattered by that. Otherwise I'd gut you. (Zarek)
Ditto. (Jericho)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#22. I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.
Kiana Tom
#23. My gut is telling me you're innocent." His gaze went to the gun and then back to her face. "Relatively innocent.
Elizabeth Heiter
#24. I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'
Archie Panjabi
#26. The wraith responds vehemently that...No! No! Any conversation or interchange is better than none at all, to trust him on this, that the worst kind of gut-wrenching intergenerational interface is better than withdrawal or hiddenness on either side
David Foster Wallace
#27. Have a lot of conversations. Look at the implications of changing, but ultimately, you have to trust your gut. Test your conflicting advice as much as you can through research and conversations.
JJ Ramberg
#28. New science reveals that exercise positively influences the gut's balance of bacteria to favor colonies that prevent weight gain.
David Perlmutter
#29. But if I didn't know Kate, then maybe I didn't know myself-and if was that not-knowing that made my gut clench. Like losing your balance, that whoosh of almost falling, before pulling yourself back in line.
Lauren Myracle
#30. And as for that strangeness in your gut, that comes from you, not the Lord. When you were a child you had worms. As likely as not you have them again.
Flannery O'Connor
#31. I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.
Glen Taylor
#32. Gut instinct said she was bound to be up to her neck in trouble. She always was. Gut instinct was right
Shehanne Moore
#33. I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me a good story, and talk to me about why the movie is the movie they want to make. I just go with my gut.
Neal H. Moritz
#34. I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.
Will Forte
#35. My gut is telling me is that this is where I'm supposed to be. It's like I left my dreams in a jar on a shelf in my childhood closet, and now I only need to reach up and open the lid so they can come true.
Ellery Adams
#36. The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
Eric Clapton
#37. If things feel off, they are. If your gut and your mind are throwing up the timeouts begging you to listen, then listen.
Kelton Wright
#38. Over nine whole acres while a huge, horrendous Vulture puddles forever with hooked beak In his liver and entrails teeming with raw pain. It burrows deep below the breastbone, feeding And foraging without respite, for the gnawed-at Gut and gutstrings keep renewing.
Virgil
#39. A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride.
Drake
#40. Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).
Oprah Winfrey
#41. Choosing an agent is like picking a college. They give you a pitch, you hear what they've got to say, you hear what they're going to do for you. Ultimately it's a good gut reaction.
Diana Taurasi
#42. Your words don't match your vibe,
& im trusting my gut this time.
Nikki Rowe
#43. I'm not a religious or spiritual man. I am guided solely by my instincts, my gut. And they have led me to you. Without you, I have nothing to believe in.
Jessica Hawkins
#44. Ego like bile over taste buds. Get it out or hold it in. It's the suspension will drive you nuts, churn your gut.
Patrick Bryant
#45. Gut?"
"General Unified Theory." Kohler quipped. "The theory of everything.
Dan Brown
#46. Right thing is usually clear and intuitive enough to feel in our gut.
Ryan Holiday
#47. the Battle of the Boyfriends since they almost got Adam Sandler to come judge the year after The Wedding Singer was in theaters." Her phone dinged. She whipped it out, and Will's gut went tight at the name on the readout. Lindsey. Pepper angled the phone away from his
Jamie Farrell
#48. Where science is a dignified waltz in three-quarter time, magic is an improvised saxophone solo: all gut checks and synchronicities.
Michael G. Williams
#49. Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
Tatiana Maslany
#51. I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.
Regin
Kresley Cole
#52. Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.
Ally Carter
#53. Disgust was an organ in Hunt's gut. The more he thought about it, the more it churned.
John Hart
#54. I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know?
Louis C.K.
#55. Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.
Colin Powell
#56. The disappointment in his voice was like a knife to the gut, but I was keeping this secret to protect him just as much as myself. I headed for the window, climbing out before him. What should
Denise Grover Swank
#57. Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.
Faith Hill
#58. I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It's about equality and equal treatment. It feels like a gut instinct.
Hattie Morahan
#59. Feel your connection with the Source of life through a simple touch of your belly button.
Ilchi Lee
#60. Always listen to your heart and listen to your gut. Neither of them will ever lie to you.
Michael Houbrick
#61. My father loves his country and is ready to lead it. In my fathers gut: integrity.
Vanessa Kerry
#62. I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.
Jerry Weintraub
#63. I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought that was it, then Gut Records went into liquidation. I was 20. I had no idea what that meant. I had a few days to get myself out of that contract or my work would be owned by someone else.
Jessie J.
#64. Always trust your gut instinct. There will come a time when you will understand, but for now trust God has a plan greater than you have ever imagined.
Shannon L. Alder
#65. The trouble was, all their eyes came to me when I opened the door and Morrie grinned a my-girl's-gonna-get-herself-some grin. Colt looked like he wanted someone to tear his own fingernails out by the roots. And Cal looked like he was having trouble not busting a gut laughing.
Kristen Ashley
#66. But, alas, that was crap. She'd been had by a con man - simple as that. His modesty had been a way to cover up his true self. Call it instinct or women's intuition or going with your gut - whenever Wendy had done that, she had been wrong. "I
Harlan Coben
#67. I find a lot of people struggling in their lives because they feel like it was expected they do a certain thing or act a certain way and not follow what their gut is telling them to do.
Kelly Oxford
#68. If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.
Erin Brockovich
#69. Just emotional? There's no such thing. Emotions are nothing without a corresponding physical response. Adrenaline-fueled joy, heart-thumping fear, gut-churning loss.
Leisa Rayven
#70. The only way through is to bury it deep in your gut and let the hot juices work on it for a while. Soon enough you forget whatever it was that pained you to begin with.
Matt Bondurant
#71. Evidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for government to demand that religious nonprofits gut precisely that part of their program [funded through tax dollars] that makes them so effective.
Ronald J. Sider
#73. Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.
Cynthia Nixon
#74. I had the feeling deep in my gut that there'd been lines I should have spoken, gestures I should have made, that would have made things better. But looking back, I didn't know what they were. As a friend, I was pretty much useless, apparently.
Megan Crewe
#75. When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels, the brush we use is a pressure sensitive pen. The colors are the same as painters use, and how we get to the final image is the same gut wrenching way.
Donald Lambert
#76. What about those Promises of yours to never leave me? she asked, stammering too much this time. His cruel smirk was as gut-wrenching as his words - Promises are meant to be broken, sweetheart.
Khadija Rupa
#77. Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff.
Corbin Bernsen
#78. I might see a pretty woman, but even if I do, I'm not doin' my job if you don't know down to your gut there's nothin' I see that's as beautiful as what I see in you.
Kristen Ashley
#79. Irritation hardened in Cinder's gut. She might have pointed out that Pearl and Peony could have been given ready-made rather than custom dresses in order to budget for Cinder's as well. She might have pointed out that they would only wear their dresses one time too.
Marissa Meyer
#80. It is not enough,' Robert Reid said, 'to offer justice. The laws of men, the laws of God himself are not enough unless you know the heart, the tongue, the brain, the gut of your people.
Dorothy Dunnett
#81. My insides turn outward in acknowledgement of your absence. My heart slips out of my chest and down into my gut.
Coco J. Ginger
#82. What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.
Lawrence Bender
#83. What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.
Alan Alda
#84. As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for "instructions.
Gina Greenlee
#85. Have the confidence to trust your gut feeling and choose your moment to act. Timing is everything
Lulu Guinness
#86. Primal anger sharpened in his gut, brimming with a territorial, possessive need. Not a need for her, but a need to portect
a male's duty and honor.
Sarah J. Maas
#87. I do not feel any obligations toward my lineage, or environment,
but an inclination to what feels right.
Natasha Tsakos
#88. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. Trust your intuition and don't ask "why", just say no.
Maria Erving
#89. There's my gut instinct: Don't rush. Don't force the issue. Let it play out.
Rick Yancey
#91. I'm a simple man with a simple mind. I hold a simple set of beliefs that I live by. Number one, I believe in America. I believe it exists. My gut tells me I live there. I feel that it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and I strongly believe it has 50 states.
Stephen Colbert
#92. He didn't know why the Shadows wanted the brother and sister, but if he allowed himself to dwell on it too long he knew in his gut that finding them meant their deaths.
So he didn't allow himself to think about it.
Jen Meyers
#93. If you admit your fear to yourself and to him, then maybe this time you can face it instead of running away.' Even as he spoke the words to her, they hit him in the gut. He could dole out advice. But he wasn't great at following it. He'd been running away from his past for ten years.
Jody Hedlund
#94. I only believed in three things: my right fist, my left fist, and my gut.
Jaye Wells
#95. Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates.
Sarah Palin
#96. Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.
Oprah Winfrey
#97. He lost a finger. A finger! Why, I once had a Sherpa who guided me across the Himalayas with his small intestines hanging out of his gut
in winter!
Rick Yancey
#98. I've been known to be contrary. When something pushes me, I shove back. Even if the one doing the pushing is me. It would have been easy to gut him then and there. Satisfying. But the need was too urgent. I felt pushed.
Mark Lawrence
#99. I knew it in my gut, like an anchor thrown into the ocean. The deeper it sunk, the more I knew. I was in love
Tijan
#100. Because of my compact and muscular body composition, my short hair, and my "Johawk," I have been mistaken for a boy on many occasions. Each time it happens, it feels like I have been punched in the gut. It is extremely discouraging.
Joanna Lohman
