Sense Quotes

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here.

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life. I am kind of like that at home. Do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.