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“Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some new skeleton -- was emerging from beneath the softness of her accustomed self. With a deep, visceral ache, she wished her true form might prove to be a sleek and shining one, like a stiletto blade slicing free of an ungainly sheath. Like a bird of prey losing its hatchling fluff to hunt in cold, magnificent skies. That she might become something glittering, something startling, something dangerous.”

Source: Lips Touch: Three Times

“He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down.”

Ifs Trying Mind Mean Art Stories Might Novel Fronts Upside Down Insulted Visceral Insulted Him

Author:Julian Barnes

“Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.”

Doe Belief Understanding Intellectual Visceral

Author:Orson Scott Card

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

Guy Sentences I Realized Reactions Visceral Implied Saliva

Author:Tammara Webber

“Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?”

Source: In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way

“All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.”

“From where I sit, battles are hard. I’ve written my share. Sometimes I employ the private’s viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader right into the middle of the carnage. That’s vivid and visceral, but of necessity chaotic, and it is easy to lose all sense of the battle as a whole. Sometimes I go with the general’s point of view instead, looking down from on high, seeing lines and flanks and reserves. That gives a great sense of the tactics, of how the battle is won or lost, but can easily slide into abstraction.”

“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.”

Men Made Animal Angel Rational Beast Visceral Cerebral

Book:The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition

Source: The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition

“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.”

Men World I Can Guy Sports Levels Fingers Another Man High Level Visceral Playing Sports

Author:Kurt Russell

“I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.”

Process Audience Communication Theatre Contact Rehearsal Visceral

Author:Judd Nelson

“I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.”

Way Feels Mean Language Fire Planets Shots Ill Currents British Elites Visceral

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“Good design allows things to operate more efficiently, smoothly, and comfortably for the user. That's the real source of advantage. Businesses have started to understand this, so good design will become the price of entry. ... Customers appreciate good design. While they can't necessarily point out what specifically makes it good, they know it feels better. There's a visceral connection. They are willing to pay for it, if you give them a great experience.”

Ifs Knows Giving Feels Real Pay Design Willing Source Advantage Appreciate Connections Customers Users Feel Better Entry Visceral Good Design Great Experiences

Author:James P Hackett

“To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.”

Goal Laughing Comedy Connections Reactions Hearted Visceral

Author:Louis C. K.

“I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.”

Way Funny Inspiring Neurosis Guitarist Visceral

Author:Joe Satriani

“Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable.”

Trying Different War Seems Film Elements Propaganda Pornography Horrific Visceral Elements Of Life

Author:Michael Haneke

“Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?”

Objects Ultimate Hideous Visceral Ultimate Truth

Author:Max Perutz

“When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it.”

Done Able Beautiful Growing Up Knowing Saws Too Much Growing Seeing Magic Pure Response Rays Thank God Visceral Knowing Too Much

Author:Tim Burton

“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”

Years Humans Stories Passion Literature Audience Bottom Reactions Dimensions Looking Forward Covering Impart Whatever It Takes Visceral Years Of Experience

Author:Geraldo Rivera

“I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.”

Kind Sound Belly Visceral

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“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.”

People Way Use Feelings Understanding Company Figures Entrepreneur Admire Making Money Consistent Visceral

Author:Ben Silbermann

“The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who get to the flesh. Visceral artists - Bacon, Freud. And de Kooning, of course. He's really my man. He doesn't depict anything, yet it's more than representation, it's about the meaning of existence and pushing the medium of paint.”

Men Feels Art Body Artist Courses Existence Paint Flesh Mediums Pushing Representation Visceral

Author:Jenny Saville

“The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.”

Way I Can Music Is Demon Shakes Melancholy Visceral Exorcism Euphoric

Author:Florence Welch

“The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum”

Past Fiction Science Fiction Visceral Humdrum

Author:Dean Cavanagh

“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.”

America Fun Team Wall Throwing Puppets Visceral Team America

Author:Matt Stone

“But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living.”

My Own Land Farms Engineers Laundry Visceral

Author:Sandra Lerner

“The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally evocative objects that constitute a perfect delivery systemBooks that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. Books that make us believe, for however short a time, that we shall all live happily ever after.”

“Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories are startling, nerve wracking, provocative: she combines Angela Carter's beautiful style with Patricia Highsmith's malevolent atmospheres. Smyth shatters clichs and dismisses mere sociology. She knows that pleasure is besieged by terror. She tells us what we don't want to know, but need to know. Smyth's writing disturbs us, enrichingly, because truth can never be at peace with language.”

Knows Want Needs Writing Stories Beautiful Language Pleasure Style Adventure Morality Unique Mere Terror Atmosphere Something New Nerves Sociology Carter Provocative Visceral Angela

Author:George Elliott Clarke

“Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting talent shines in this story of the earth's destructive power and humanity's moral depravity. The emerging maniacal personality, revealed in increasingly gruesome and venomous detail, rivals the Ripper.Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter. Brace yourself.”

“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.”

People Way Doe Opinion Issues Magic Design Raises Reactions Mediums Permanent Visuals Guts Life And Death Hitting Tattoo Visceral Magic Words

Author:Don Ed Hardy

“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.”

People Ideas Helping Inspiration Motivation Interesting Notion Helping Others Reactions Lots Of Money Visceral Helping Other People

Author:Dan Pallotta

“Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt every hour of the day by ordinary people, but is repressed for reasons of social order. I think it would be very cathartic, and it would certainly make for an exciting six o'clock news.”

People Thinking Reason Would Be Order Social Felt Hours Six News Ordinary Hatred Exciting Clock Devoted Valentine Ordinary People Valentine's Day Repressed Social Order Visceral Cathartic

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.”

Writing Stills Mom Becoming Pages Letters My Mom Disappear Opening Visceral Handwriting Anomalies Handwritten Letters

Author:Steve Carell

“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.”

Thinking Feels Moving Watches Missing Internet Machines Phones Appeals Compare Heat Engines Plastic Steam Ipods Visceral Omniscient Steam Engines Boiler

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.”

Doe Whole Change Levels Virtue Emotional Listening Mood Visceral

Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also had felt lately and described as a sadness-based fear, immune to tone and interpretation, as if not meant for humans - more visceral than sadness, but unlike fear because it decreased heart rate and impaired the senses, causing everything to seem 'darker.”

Ifs Knows Way Humans Heart Said Seems Felt Sadness Rate Scary Senses Tone Interpretation Immune Decrease Visceral Erin Heart Rate

Book:Taipei

Source: Taipei

“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.”

Knows Done Feelings Known Discovery Incredibles Welcome Thrill Visceral

Author:Phil Plait

“For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of pure possibility, my future. But to write to the author was to reach out for the lover. Even today, the power of reading one remains visceral: each book acts as a form of transportation, not just to the emotional landscape of this first literary love affair but to very specific memories.”

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

People Dream Remember Reading Rooms Library African American Novelists Reading Books Visceral

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.”

People Feels Self Feelings Body Past Form Process Alive Awareness Experts Guts Warning Interiors Discomfort Visceral Unsafe Gut Feelings Numbing Bombarded Warning Signs Bombarded By

Author:Bessel van der Kolk

“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.”

Feels Two Acting Directors Comfortable Direct Visceral

Author:Vincent Cassel

“The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.”

Moving Stars Felt Sound Sun Journey Land Special Car Wind Moon Connections Machines Motorcycle Rough Times Visceral

Author:Antoine Predock

“Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes; people, places, and events appear out of nowhere. Doors open into rooms remembered from childhood, faces form into dead relatives, and distant loves appear, almost magically, on the page- all deceptively manageable, visceral, the combinations sometimes even revelatory.”

People Love Writing Sometimes Eye Age Faces Form Process Rooms Doors Childhood Fronts Events Strange Pages Combination Remembered Prose Association Recollection Visceral Manageable Prose Writing

Author:Chris Ware

“Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat.”

Thinking Responsibility History Duty Citizens Seats Historian Scholar Clash Visceral Cerebral

Book:Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey

Source: Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey

“If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel ... In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it.”

Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

“Making my last record, Warrior, was a pretty miserable process, and it wore my spirit down. I was fighting like hell to keep my whole irreverent essence and everything raw and visceral that I stand for in it, but in the end I was promoting something that wasn't the animal I wanted it to be. I decided to face my problem head-on.”

Ends Whole Problem Wanted Lasts Faces Spirit Fighting Process Animal Hell Records Decided Essence Warrior Miserable Promoting Visceral Irreverent

Author:Kesha

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

Hard Creating Beats Spontaneous Visceral Creating Something

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“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.”

Mind Stills Light Together Beautiful Dark Photography Opposites Ugly Sublime Bark Light And Dark Visceral

Author:Jack Welpott

“Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral.”

Love Is Intellectual Visceral

Author:Kelly McGillis

“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.”

Should Action Turns Actors Brain Roles Directors Guts Visceral Cerebral

Author:Natalie Dormer

“The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.”

Thinking Kind Three Seeing Unique Theater Genre Dimensions Appropriate Format Visceral Three Dimensions Unique Experiences

Author:Cary Elwes

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