Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.
I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.
One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer. . . . In this sense, the work as such is nonexistent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and viewer.
Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.
I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything.
deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac. . . It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.
For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it.
Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.
The audience's reactions are more important: if people believe in the love story, it's because they love how we've acted. That's the most beautiful award. It's very important for me, people appreciating what I do.
I often find that people's reactions to the show say way more about them than they do about the show itself. I think that's because a lot of it happens between the lines.
US wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular reaction develops.
I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.
Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
Too often we worry about how the others react-but it's YOUR reaction that they monitor.
Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them
This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.
Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said