#reaction

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#always #every #generation #itself #own

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#audiences #country #father #felt #found

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

— Amy Lowell

#desire #express #himself #his #lives

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#art #aspect #autonomy #aware #counter

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#come #company #dad #father #financial

Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber. ↗

— John Mica

#ban #because #bomber #box #course

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. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#anger #avoidance #because #bit #deal

Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#case #chemical #constitutes #effect #had

If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#better #down #exchange #get #good

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#men #now #reaction #rock #rock and roll