Sense Quotes

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

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.

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!