Quotes About Visceral

#1. Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

Andrew Bird

#2. Making my way out of the bedroom, I found the loft empty, a visceral reminder that it had always been my sister's choice not to know me.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#3. I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

Vincent Cassel

#4. The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.

Scott Westerfeld

#5. And that's when I realized that being attracted to someone happens at a visceral level. It happens when you see and feel the other person's heart and your heart twinges in your chest in reaction.

Kim Holden

#6. The savagery of the picture strange and alluring, Frank smeared with blood and absolutely at ease. Barbarian, primitive, visceral; if Tony had been given to myth-making, he would have wondered if there could be any more frightening god than one who was simultaneously provider and destroyer.

Aleksandr Voinov

#7. Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

E.L. Konigsburg

#8. But the knowing was visceral: if I became a mother, I'd lose myself.

Kate Bolick

#9. It's different for people who have not seen a symphony conductor conduct from a chair. I feel very connected to the orchestra in a way that a conductor sometimes does not feel. I think it's more visceral.

Joshua Bell

#10. It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing
how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'
and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.

Joyce Carol Oates

#11. We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

C.S. Lewis

#12. Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.

Rick Yancey

#13. America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises. So was Jefferson. In his head and in his heart, as in the nation itself, the perfect warred with the good, the intellectual with the visceral.

Jon Meacham

#14. He remembers noticing his dad's shadow was shorter than the others, and he had a visceral sense his father was weaker than the rest, and that he was more dangerous as a weak person with a lot of power than a powerful person with a lot of power.

Jardine Libaire

#15. There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.

Kevin O'Leary

#16. That's how you know someone loves you. When they want you to be happy even in the part of your life they'll never see. But right then I was too stuck in the moment, in the visceral pleasure of it all.

Leah Raeder

#17. 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

#18. Healing, he told us, depends on experiential knowledge: You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#19. We had visceral, rich memories of dull, interminable hours. Then a day would pass in perfect harmony with our projects, our family members, and our coworkers, and we couldn't believe we were getting paid for this.

Joshua Ferris

#20. What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity. He said: One hand, one million dollars, no tears.

Michael Lewis

#21. There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Jacqueline Woodson

#22. The Cold War's end pushed disarmament down most leaders' agendas. It's a sophisticated issue, which I think is one reason why it is not so hands-on to many people. It's not visceral. It's not like a starving child.

Michael Douglas

#23. I felt an old, visceral insecurity that manifested itself in an impulse to cover up our cribbage game, to literally shield the board with my hands.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#24. Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

Georg Baselitz

#25. I like visceral writing that people can't help but respond to, even if they respond, and they're shocked, or they're angry, or they're offended. I think that's the only way to reach people.

Geneva Carr

#26. I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

#27. We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

Dan Pallotta

#28. Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral.

Kelly McGillis

#29. With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.

Geraldo Rivera

#30. The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.

Anthony Burgess

#31. When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid.

Bryant McGill

#32. I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.

James Purefoy

#33. I feel like you can do all the research in the world, but when you start putting that costume on, put your hair in a wig and walk into those sets, that's where the visceral reaction is. It's no longer in the head. It's in the body.

Anastasia Griffith

#34. Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.

Paul Kalanithi

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

Kurt Russell

#39. Ronin was lonely. Maybe not always, but often enough that he understood that visceral fear that it might never change.

Lorelei James

#40. but sometimes you just need that visceral affirmation that the people you love are all right, that they're just there in front of you. Close enough to touch.

Dot Hutchison

#41. I believe the film paradoxically generates a visceral, almost tactile 'live' experience.

Anonymous

#42. And Kristin Hersh made total sense on 4AD. There was something wide-eyed and extraordinary about her, something emotional and visceral, something basic and yet complex.

Martin Aston

#43. And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

Matt Stone

#44. The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Ridley Scott

#45. You don't have to tell a child not to bully. You know, you talk at kids, they don't hear you, but when you give them a visceral experience, then they have something to remember.

Goldie Hawn

#46. The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.

P. J. O'Rourke

#47. Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by the power of photography to strip away the bark of the mind and reveal the visceral workings underneath.

Jack Welpott

#48. I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

P.J. Harvey

#49. We consume our art like moths. We gather, momentarily, around wherever the biggest, brightest light seems to be. So these days, the most successful art is the art that can elicit the quickest visceral reaction from the largest group of people.

Michael Gungor

#50. Obviously, nobody chooses not to have kids because they'd rather sleep in late. It's a very visceral decision, and it's a complicated decision.

Meghan Daum

#51. Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?

Max Perutz

#52. The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

Dean Cavanagh

#53. I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.

Alex Timbers

#54. A digital download is not as visceral as buying a CD, removing the shrink-wrap, putting the disc in your player, and pouring through the booklet of lyrics and liner notes. The digital age has removed us from the tactile experience of what it meant to listen to an album.

Steve Weinstein

#55. In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

Maynard Webb

#56. Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

Wolf Kahn

#57. I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say.

Rebecca Hall

#58. racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#59. It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

Carrie Brownstein

#60. Love is visceral and real. Love is physical. It embraces all things. Love doesn't space you out or take you out of this world.

Frederick Lenz

#61. It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

Natalie Dormer

#62. Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

Tomas Borge

#63. I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic and relevatory-here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent.

Janet Fitch

#64. It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

Maya Beiser

#65. I like for people to figure things out for themselves. It's not like I have the right answer, but if I have a visceral reaction to something, I'm sure that other people will, too.

Charlie Kaufman

#66. What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

Len Wein

#67. A music born among children of slaves is like an orphan: it will never know its real parents, will never hear the full visceral story of its birth.

Carolina De Robertis

#68. Unless you've touched a corpse before, you can't comprehend the visceral wrongness of inert flesh wrapped around an inanimate object that wears your mother's face.

Elan Mastai

#69. On a visceral level, most of us know what soul loss means. This is the shaman's diagnosis of the root cause of many of our complaints: our lack of energy, our fatigue, our depression, why our immune systems are blown, why we lack enthusiasm and courage for life.

Robert Moss

#70. 'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.

Brendan Fletcher

#71. The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

Penn Jillette

#72. The Church does not exist to condemn people but to bring about an encounter with the visceral love of God's mercy.

Pope Francis

#73. The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.

Ben Silbermann

#74. Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I'd exchanged more saliva than sentences.

Tammara Webber

#75. What she coaxed out of me was a visceral need to live, and wasn't that what fueled immortality and made it worthwhile anyway? That there were wonders still left to be uncovered?

Roshani Chokshi

#76. Memory is so subjective. We all remember in a visceral, emotional way, and so even if we agree on the facts - what was said, what happened where and when - what we take away and store from a moment, what we feel about it, can vary radically.

Alan Cumming

#77. I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#78. The poet who glories in war is a spinner of lies. The poet who delights in visceral detail, for the ... purpose of feeding that lust for blood, has all the depth of a puddle of piss ...

Steven Erikson

#79. 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.

Todd Phillips

#80. My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.

Sloane Crosley

#81. Before taking an analytical approach, you should immerse yourself in the sheer visceral intensity of these performances, which capture the ethos of

Ted Gioia

#82. Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.

James Cameron

#83. I really wanted to take the viewer to the 'here and now' regarding the exterminations, and communicate directly in a visceral way. The art of cinema can communicate that way, and that's why I wanted to do it that way.

Laszlo Nemes

#84. You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.

Andy Serkis

#85. I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

Mark Heard

#86. I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism that is greater than ourselves. Perhaps that was what others called God. Perhaps not.

Michael Cox

#87. I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it's beautiful.

Joseph Altuzarra

#88. I watched plays with the kind of voracity with which small children read books; with the same visceral passion, the same complete trust in the imagination which is so difficult to sustain through the course of one's whole life.

Deirdre Madden

#89. The live experience and the recorded experience are totally different. When you're recording an album, you won't be able to immerse people in sound. When you play live, you want to grab people on the visceral level. They're completely different.

Matt Tong

#90. I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.

Rodney Mullen

#91. James (like the far more visceral Conrad) seizes your life.

Cynthia Ozick

#92. I remember early on, in the first couple of years especially, I would run into some people that would try to put Kickstarter under the 'social good' label. And I actually had this very visceral reaction - I just didn't like that at all.

Perry Chen

#93. When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Brit Marling

#94. Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

Orson Scott Card

#95. You can experience the thrill of discovery, the incredible, visceral feeling of doing something no one has ever done before, see things no one has ever seen before, know something no one has ever known before ... Welcome to science, you're gonna like it here.

Phil Plait

#96. I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way.

Roberto Bolano

#97. Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.

Ben Brantley

#98. Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling.

Dave Gibbons

#99. When I read 'The Water Diviner,' I was having the same kind of visceral reaction that I would normally have acting in something. I believed that I was the only person that could tell this story the way it needed to be told. That's the real arrogance of a director!

Russell Crowe

#100. If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences I've had, that need to be transformed.

Lilith Saintcrow