Sensibility Quotes

I like that New York sensibility where you can be edgy, but still super-glamorous.

When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.

A lot of singers that I've heard that I may not like their sensibility, but I see that they're entitled to whatever they get. People don't get there without talent, they really don't.

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.

Mad About You fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really fun. It felt like a very natural fit.

Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.

When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out.

Hip-hop was my first real love, one that was my own and wasn't my parents' music. Initially, I was inspired by hip-hop fashion. Over the years, I kept the hip-hop sensibility, but make it my own.

Women are just different. Their sensibilities are different.

I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.

I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good

I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events.

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

I suppose what I can say is that I do feel I have a natural spiritual sensibility.

I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

You're not hurt, are you?" "Only my delicate sensibilities.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

The weird part is actually, there were so many exceptionally talented people there [ on "MADtv"]. But it was a disaster. I don't think I enjoyed any of it, really. I had a different sensibility.

Feeling loves a subdued light.

A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.

Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.

the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.

You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love.

Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

Art fuels the fire inside me.

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society.

It is important to know you are not above or below anyone.