Gut Quotations

I have lucky boots for military embeds, a lucky scarf for road trips, a lucky handbag, and lucky days of the week. I tap into my gut for 'right' or 'wrong' feelings about such simple things as whether I should go grocery shopping.

An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our heart of hearts that the universe does not travel from mush to complexity. In fact, this gut instinct is reflected in one of the most fundamental laws of physics, the second law of thermodynamics, or the law of entropy.

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

By the time you're 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn't go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university.

I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center.

I imagined there would be a way to crack the diffraction barrier. But of course I didn't know exactly how it would work, but I had a gut feeling that there must be something, and so I tried to think about it, to be creative.

Trusting your gut is always the best thing - no matter what people around you insist you should be doing or saying or thinking. Only you know and once you live in truth,your heart is completely free.

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

I always say that when it comes to picking a single, firstly you have to go with what feels right and what your gut tells you.

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn't show systematic change over human history. But they do.

People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life.

Experience shows us that most people's votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy.

At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there's a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there's just a weird anxiety around women.

Any time skating was featured in a video game, I ate it up. So around 1997-98, I was shopping this video game idea. I was weighing my options when I went to Activision, but when I saw what they were working on, I said, 'This is exactly what I'd love to be involved with,' and following that gut reaction was hugely successful.

My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.

I never know if a song's going to be popular so I don't select them with that in mind. All I can do is follow my heart and my gut and go for songs that make me feel great.

When it comes down to vocals, I want to hear something that's going to be melodic. David's always had those animalistic instincts of making those gut sounds, or whatever you want to call it. But he's developed a really strong singing voice.

We knew we were decent. When the kids called the meeting, it was gut check time. We became so much better. Our attitude was better and practices were better. When they got knocked down, they showed what they truly were made of. They developed a strong belief to excel. They pushed each other.

Vern's upbeat - you know the kind of guy he is. But it hits you in the gut when you hear that word.

We decided to let the songs determine where the record was going to go. I had written only a couple of songs before, but we decided just to go with our gut and try different approaches to everything.

We ran the ball right up the gut on our opening scoring drive, and Austin ran the ball well.

We're sending a united message to Waste Management that it's time to do the right thing by the people who keep New York's neighborhoods clean and disease-free. One hundred and twenty hardworking men and women with families were forced on strike by this company's attempts to gut our pay, benefits and particularly our health care. Sanitation work is a dangerous job with a high injury rate. Yet Waste Management is drastically raising the price of our health care while cutting coverage -- at a time when they're making record profits.

Mainly we helped people gut out their houses. We had a desire to help and serve the people.

Losing your last three out of four games, well, it's incredible. I don't know where we go from here, but I think we need to have a gut check.

Many of the folks coming will have a chance to volunteer for a full range of activities, including clean up, Habitat for Humanity or helping people gut their homes.

Scott Jackson's an easy gut to take for granted when things are going good because he does everything well. He logs a lot of ice time and he's such a key part of any of our successes.

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

May 13 was a pretty dark day ... it was a gut punch, ... We weren't expecting it. We didn't know how to react.

Of all the changes we could make, the one with regard to home-versus-away games is one that your gut tells you should be incorporated, ... How we do that and in what proportions is yet to be determined, but I think it's fair to say that most people's intuition is that there ought to be some weighting for road wins.

My gut tells me this will have a good outcome.

My gut tells me ... this is a bad one and a big one.

My gut tells me the letter is a forgery.

My gut tells me that these guys will renegotiate the price and there will be a significant haircut. Assuming they're reasonable and want to get the deal done, there's got to be some middle ground they can find.

My gut tells me that spreads and yields are still too high to see a flood of deals. But if the market continues to improve, we will be at a point where a pickup in deals would be feasible.

My gut tells me that on average, Africans feel a lot more optimistic - systems of governance have improved, along with the opportunities to improve one's livelihood.

My gut tells me my audience will tell me they don't want to hear it.

My gut says the Fed doesn't have too many bullets left to fire, and therefore they have to use them sparingly, and we'll see a (quarter percentage point) cut at the next meeting.

My gut reaction is that we're at a transformational stage. We're at a point as a business where so much has changed around us, and we really haven't changed with it. If we think we can cut our way to prosperity, we're kidding ourselves.

My gut is that we can come up with something here that is good for the league, and that we can go on with. But it's going to be up in the air, and is up in the air, at this time. I expect a pretty drawn-out meeting.

My gut is that there's a lack of fan interest around the league right now.

My gut instinct is they need to do something in the $350 million range to be seen as 'Disney's on its way back in animation,'

My gut instinct is that the Australian dollar will wobble a bit lower from here. The interest rate differential is slowly being eroded. The Australian dollar is now less attractive to overseas investors.

My gut instinct is someone or some gang of thieves is targeting books (being held in places) with light security.

My gut feeling that they'd see fit to beat the Street by a penny proved right.

My gut feeling, I thought that he was going to stay closer in this area. But you still can't throw away any facts that he could have the probability of going down there. So, we were playing both leads all the time. Who knows where he was going. I think a lot of that stuff will come out in the investigation as we backtrack.

My gut feeling is we should do this . . . and I like to win. I think (if softball were readmitted) it would be a win for the IOC too.

My gut feeling is they'll probably say there will be low visibility in the near term, but things will come back in the third or fourth quarter of calendar 2001.

My gut feeling is they have no intention of operating supermarkets long-term. I think they want to preserve it the best they can while they're in the process of liquidating.

My gut feeling is the Nasdaq has made its low.

My gut feeling is that they'll take it down one day and make some kind of monument out of it,

My gut feeling is that there has been sufficient movement to merit supporting it in principle - at second reading - but I want to leave open that there may be things that need to be clarified or altered or amended at committee stage.

My gut feeling is something good is going to happen. I don't know if it's going to happen here or somewhere else, but my gut feeling tells me I'm going to end up with a long-term deal, pretty much happy.

My gut feeling is it is still early enough in the season, as long as we keep getting moisture. We just need some cooler temperatures also to get more snow.

My gut feeling is I'm playing, regardless. But, it's easy for me to say that. I just have to wait and see what the doc says.

My gut feeling is he's more focused on the political than the economic agenda. He stresses the goal of resolving Israel's borders by 2010 a lot more than putting up a fight to control spending and pay off debt.

Neither team really got into a rhythm offensively. It was a gut check game and we made some plays late. I told the kids that we may be 10-8 but we haven't lost a close game all year.

My suspicion is Kennedy probably will not want to adopt a rule that would gut the practical effect of Casey, which is a decision he wrote. On the other hand, he might choose a narrower way of upholding the New Hampshire law. He might remand to see if the health exception can be applied in the language.

I was at the Super Bowl last year just hoping that one day we'd be able to get there. I may seem like a mild-mannered guy, but my gut was churning inside: 'Let's win this game. Just win this game. We've got to win this game.

I would expect him to be there. That's just my gut feeling.

I go with his gut feeling. In most situations, it works out.

I don't know what's more frustrating, the initial punch to the gut of being defrauded or the lack of follow-up by my community, especially the people in power. You go to the people that are supposed to fight for you and they screw you, too.

I believe that Seattle is really, really close to being a dominant football team. We can have a great tradition for a long time. I want to be a part of that. But fair is fair. My gut tells me Seattle will be fair.

But so much depends on which team wins, and right now my gut says Pittsburgh is going to win. America loves winners.

I lost track of how many at-bats we had today. After seven or eight at-bats, the bats starting getting heavy. Guys hadn't eaten since 10 or 11 this morning. It takes a lot out of you. You've got to gut it out. They did. I wish them luck. They played an outstanding series.

I have a gut feeling we are slowly, inch by inch, destroying quality education for all students.

I have a gut feeling he's going to pitch.

I have a really good gut feeling about this year. Not only with the professional shows, but with our school performances.

I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don't, I get in trouble. I wanted to become a filmmaker.

I felt like I had to fire it up with Jarred gone. We felt bad for Jarred and wanted to win for him, but everybody was heavy-legged in the first half. It was one of those games we had to gut out.

Give credit to them. They got better, they played a lot harder, and they caught us at a good time. We had a little residual from the last game, but we were able to gut it out down the stretch.

From our gut feeling and from visits to consumers, there's this calling out of lifting people up again.

From what I've read and seen ? and given this gut feeling that I have ? I think it's the right direction to go in. Even though I don't have all the answers right now, I'm confident that it will work in the end.

I expected them to cut every piece of red tape, do everything they could ... that I didn't want to hear anybody say that we couldn't do everything they humanly could to respond to this. Because I knew in my gut this was the bad one.

Give them credit, they played very good defense the first half, and then we saw some things we though would be effective against them. It was a great gut check at that point.

He has been just so good there. He felt confident at 130. He is a disciplined athlete. It was kind of a gut feeling from Austin to stick at 130.

He (Morris) is a junior but he's gutsy. He's got three older brothers and I'm sure they knocked him around when he was kid. So he'll go out there and gut it out for us.

We've got to gut them out. That's what we do.

He said he had a bad feeling. He said he didn't know if he was going to come back or not. It was a gut feeling, he knew.

I actually, when I read the script I knew it was going to be a big hit. In my gut, my gut said that this show was going to be it.

He was able to gut it out for the rest of the period, and we got a good look at it after. The doctors made the decision that it wasn't the best thing for him to play at that point.

Kind of like a gut punch, it took the air out of us. He's so tall, it's hard to match up.

I think it got to the point where we just got fed up. It was a gut check.

It can act as a gut check for somebody.

I tapped him in the gut when I was walking over to the starting blocks. I'm just going to feed off this the rest of the meet because what I swam tonight was pretty fast for me.

I thought we fought really hard throughout the lineup. I was really impressed with how some of our guys were able to come back and gut out some wins.

I thought the other horse was going to blow by. To hold on like he did shows his quality. This was a gut check. Class always prevails. If he could have gone slower, he probably could have won by more.

I think it was really a kick in the gut to all of us when we saw that map. It's really disappointing.

I think this is going to go down as a gut check for the Miami Hurricane program. They're at a low point recruiting-wise.

I think some people on that jury probably haven't slept real well and some may have that gut instinct that says, 'Oops.' Obviously they believe beyond a reasonable doubt, we accept that. But that doesn't mean that someone doesn't have residual doubt and residual doubt can have its voice in this phase of the proceedings.

Last week was a gut check, and there's no way we were going to feel that way again this week. I'd cut off my left pinky -- it's already broken anyway -- not to lose this game.

Last week, the Bush administration announced devastating new regulations that will gut clean air laws -- allowing power plants to avoid installing simple anti-pollution equipment when they modernize,

Irish eyes are surely smiling -- and we all will be breathing easier -- with this green court ruling on St. Patrick's Day. The court recognized the blarney in the administration's plan to gut a key part of the Clean Air Act and rejected it. Now thousands of dirty facilities will not be able to pollute more.

Owen Wilson... I loved him in Royal Tenenbaums when his shirt was off and his gut was showing. I don't care if a guy is out of shape.

Our fans are very loyal. They are very vocal about what they like, and what they don't like. They don't like us over-analyzing our music. They like us going a little bit more over the top, going with our gut instincts.

Really, it was a big risk to gut your defense like they've kind of done by cutting a lot of guys who had been there a while. Not just for the personnel's sake, but how the team feels about playing with guys, and the chemistry on the team.

Reggie is clearly the best player in the draft. My gut feeling is Reggie is the first pick. Where he goes, I don't know.

Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.

Some guys on our team were visibly tired. We kept telling them in timeouts, you've just got to gut through it.