Quotes on Sense

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Author: Dean Acheson

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

Author: Stella Adler

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

Author: Barbara Amiel

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

Author: Piers Anthony

Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island.

Author: Christopher Atkins

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

Author: Derek Bailey

I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.

Author: Carl Barks

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

Author: Kate Beckinsale

I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

Author: Max Beckmann

A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need.

Author: Polly Berends

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Author: Ugo Betti

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

Author: Theodore Bikel

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

Author: James Brooks

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

Author: Peabo Bryson

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

Author: William Burroughs

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

Author: John Cale

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

Author: James Cameron

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

Author: Matt Cameron

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.

Author: John Carlisle

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

Author: John Carre

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

Author: Irvin Cobb

If you sense there must be more, there is more.

Author: Alan Cohen

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

Author: Robert Creeley

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

Author: Ruth Denis

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

Author: Atom Egoyan

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Author: Atom Egoyan

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

Author: Andrew Eldritch

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.

Author: Keith Emerson

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

Author: Garth Ennis

For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.

Author: Grandmaster Flash

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

Author: Judy Garland

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

Author: Lauren Graham

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

Author: Pam Grier

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

Author: G. Hall

And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.

Author: Lawrence Halprin

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.

Author: Thomas Harrison

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

Author: Don Herold

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.

Author: Gregory Hines

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

Author: David Hockney

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

Author: A. Housman

Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.

Author: Rachel Hunter

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

Author: William Inge

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

Author: George Jackson

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Author: Anna Jameson

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

Author: Ian John

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Author: Franz Kafka

We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.

Author: Robbie Keane

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

Author: Ben Kingsley

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

Author: Frank Knight

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

Author: Stanley Kubrick

It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.

Author: Sanjay Kumar

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

Author: James Laughlin

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.

Author: Geddy Lee

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

Author: Philip Levine

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.

Author: Arto Lindsay

No sense makes sense.

Author: Charles Manson

It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

Author: Craig McCracken

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.

Author: Kevin McDonald

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Author: Don McLean

The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about.

Author: Tom Metzger

I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.

Author: Christina Milian

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

Author: J. Miller

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

Author: Eugenio Montale

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Author: John Morley

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

Author: Van Morrison

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

Author: Jason Mraz

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

Author: Gerry Mulligan

I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.

Author: Michael Nesmith

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.

Author: Joanna Newsom

I'm here to make sense.

Author: Edward Olmos

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Author: Pablo Picasso

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.

Author: Witold Pilecki

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

Author: John Polkinghorne

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

Author: Lee Raymond

So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue.

Author: Mitchell Reiss

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

Author: Leni Riefenstahl

To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.

Author: Jane Roberts

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Author: John Robinson

I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.

Author: Arthur Rock

I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense.

Author: Jon Ronson

In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.'

Author: Thomas Sargent

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

Author: Jean Savarin

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

Author: Fred Schneider

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.

Author: John Sexton

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

Author: Al Sharpton

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

Author: Dinah Sheridan

So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.

Author: Billy Sherwood

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Author: Sophocles

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Author: Rex Stout

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.

Author: Kiefer Sutherland

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.

Author: Amber Tamblyn

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Author: James Thurber

A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.

Author: Glenn Tipton

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

Author: Tom Verlaine

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

Author: Robert Wilson

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

Author: Dave Winer

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.

Author: Norman Wisdom

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Author: Virginia Woolf

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

Author: Frank Wright

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.

Author: Minoru Yamasaki

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with trend and join adventure

Author: Ananchel Garcia