Knee Jerk Response Quotes

#1. I'd really rather that nobody had a gun, and then nobody would have to worry about it. That would be more my theory. In America, there's this knee-jerk response that more walls and more guns make people safer, and I'm entirely suspect of that way of thinking.

Ethan Hawke

#2. Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Frank Herbert

#3. If you let yourself abandon the I-should-know-this-already attitude and simply accept your ignorance without giving yourself a hard time about it, then you can learn whatever it is you need to learn.

Barbara Baig

#4. I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

Sara Zarr

#5. A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

Stieg Larsson

#6. We tend to have a knee-jerk negative response to anything that seems to want or have control over us.

Sheena Iyengar

#7. Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.

Art Spiegelman

#8. If you've got style, you'll show it, no matter the city.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#9. We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.

Timothy Keller

#10. There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Richard Whately

#11. I have a rescue dog named Walter, and Walter and I are such fans of the 'Jersey Shore' that we changed his name to DJ Wally D.

Steve-O

#12. A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.

George Herbert

#13. Sadness and love and pain, they're easy to feel- but not luck.

S.D. Crockett

#14. I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

Jacob Bronowski

#15. Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. I remember when I first came out on tour, it was Greg Norman and Nick Price. We forget how big Norman was, what a presence he was. I remember one of my first tournaments, Greg threw an orange peel down on the ground and some fan ran over and grabbed it. 'This is Greg Norman's orange peel!'

Phil Mickelson

#17. I know what it's like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

Rainbow Rowell