Sense Quotes

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.

Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.

There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.