The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. – Jhumpa Lahiri
I’m still astounded by some people’s reaction to things I consider quite normal. – Jean Paul Gaultier
In minority communities there’s a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There’s a misunderstanding of what an artist does. – Junot Diaz
I’m very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader. – Billy Collins
In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants. – Aaron Klug
There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction. – Frans de Waal
I think there are some folks who don’t particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive. – Daniel Woodrell
The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it. – Mary Quant
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths. – Miguel Syjuco
There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make. – Jim Hodges
Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I’m not sure. – Marcel Duchamp
There isn’t any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction. – Richard Artschwager
We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization. – Sherman Alexie
The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers. – Paul Kantner