Guts Quotes

It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning.

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

There's no substitute for guts.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

In politics, guts is all.

I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.

Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.