There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

- Fred Ward

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

- Lindsay Lohan

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

- Joan Didion

It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see.

- Henry Grunwald

I have a suicide impulse.

- Hal Holbrook

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

- Helen Keller

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

- Graham Swift

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

- Gordon Ramsay

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

- George Santayana

I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse.

- George Packer

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.

- Amy Bloom

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

- David Eagleman

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

- Dave Eggers

If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.

- Douglas Coupland

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.

- Cillian Murphy

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

- Brenda Ueland

Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.

- Andrew J. West

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

- Alfre Woodard