Sense Quotes

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.

So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense.

I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.

People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.