Sense Quotes

I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.

You look at John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction,' you look at Donnie Wahlberg in 'The Sixth Sense.' People have liens against them in crazy ways and the audience is always forgiving - if you prove it.

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.