Sense Quotes

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

Our system allows you to respond to the information that is important to you. It allows you to sense and be attuned to more streams of information in parallel.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

There is no sense in owning the copyright unless you are going to use it. I don't think anyone wants to hold all of this stuff in a vault and not let anybody have it. It's only worth something once it's popular.

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.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.