Gut Reaction Quotes

#1. 188. I hated trying to figure out what was best morally, because so often that didn't jibe with my gut reaction.

Charlaine Harris

#2. Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am.

Scott Weiland

#3. Experience shows us that most people's votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy.

David Horsey

#4. I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.

Will Self

#5. When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, "Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I'm going in again" - my gut reaction is, "What a badass.

Brene Brown

#6. I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut reaction to that and that gut reaction usually becomes the title of the book.

Larry Winget

#7. When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?

Emily Blunt

#8. Only Aviva's long habit of taking the temperature of her own racism, of her biases and stereotypes about young black males (or about the iron-hard perdurance of their grandmothers) enabled Aviva to set aside, for the time being, her gut reaction - the boy was trouble - and admire Titus's stillness.

Michael Chabon

#9. Imogen looked at Ty, at the one man who could halt her stone-cold logic and make her just feel ... She needed that, to be caught off guard, to learn to trust her first gut reaction to her emotions. There had been no hesitation on her part - he had asked and her heart had sung out a big fat yes.

Erin McCarthy

#10. I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I have a gut reaction to the things that my subconscious gives me.

Ray Bradbury

#11. Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death.

Don Ed Hardy

#12. Let go," I demand. "No." My eyebrows snap together. "Why not?" "Because your gut reaction is always to punch, and I don't like being tickled." Tickled? Tickled! Indignation swamps me. I'll show him a tickle.

Amanda Bouchet

#13. 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

#14. I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.

Kiana Tom

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!

Indra Nooyi

#18. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

#19. Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings.

Anthony Liccione

#20. Memphis are a big part of who I am, but it's still just a part

Matty Mullins

#21. I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.

Larry Wall

#22. Let's judge a man on what he's done.

Barbara Bush

#23. While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.

Terry Pratchett