Automatic Quotes - page 6

Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on. (Denise Van Outen)
A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along? View quote
Jon Meacham
Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security. View quote
Igor Ivanov
I actually don't pay a lot of attention to the movie 'industry'... I just do the work when I get it. I never considered anything I was in, or did, as a possible breakthrough for me. I have advised other actors not to expect anything. Expecting a 'breakthrough' is almost an automatic for sure 'let down' or heartbreak. View quote
Mark Margolis
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. View quote
Monica Edwards
Making people laugh was automatic. View quote
Sherman Hemsley
Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me. View quote
Steven Lopez
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. View quote
Rollo May
Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night. View quote
William James
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can.... The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. View quote
William James
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. (Douglas MacArthur)
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. View quote
Edward Dahlberg
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates. View quote
Oleg Cassini
After this was done I reached in under my left armpit in approved American gangster fashion and produced my ugly little automatic. Without a further word I placed it on the front desk of my Steinway and proceeded with my concert. Every note was heard and, in a sense, I suppose I opened up the way in Hungary for modern music of a non-Bartó k– Kodá ly variety. View quote
George Antheil
I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence. View quote
Simon Cowell
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter. View quote
Steve Martin
I was a soldier, and I created a machine gun for a soldier. It was called an Avtomat Kalashnikova, the automatic weapon of Kalashnikov - AK - and it carried the date of its first manufacture, 1947. View quote
Mikhail Kalashnikov
We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation. View quote
William S. Burroughs
People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic. View quote
John Frusciante
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic. (Marshall McLuhan)
I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason. View quote
Will Ferrell
We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need. View quote
Randy Alcorn
We've got 8 points from 4 games. That's automatic promotion form. View quote
Phil Brown (footballer)