What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction books that if dropped in a lake go down not with a whimper but a splash.

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take by the year 2000 all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Excess generally causes reaction and produces a change in the opposite direction whether it be in the seasons or in individuals or in governments.

Action and reaction ebb and flow trial and error change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence fear out of our fear clearer vision fresh hope. And out of hope progress.

I have a 6-year-old and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts not react with your heart.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind and I guess in reading the things that were given to me I reacted as you guys saw me you know.

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

By making a comeback I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically I'd have done it years ago.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

In art scandal is a false narrative a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing we overreact.

Art is so subjective and people can react however they want.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery the feeling of righteous anger the feelings of pathos and sadness or sentimentality of being moved by something.

When I was younger I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought and its first reaction is one of anger.

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.