Sensibility Quotes
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
Art is pattern informed by sensibility. (Quote by - Herbert Read)
He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways. (Quote by - Johannes P. Muller)
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally. (Quote by - Adam Schiff)
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility. (Quote by - Nicolas Cage)
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. (Quote by - Tahar Ben Jelloun)
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. (Quote by - Remy de Gourmont)
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. (Quote by - Robert Delaunay)
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)
I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people. (Quote by - Shawn Colvin)
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words. (Quote by - George Eliot)
I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't. (Quote by - Alex Winter)
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter. (Quote by - John Grierson)
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. (Quote by - Witold Lutoslawski)
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos. (Quote by - Charlie Hunter)
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability. (Quote by - Shinichi Suzuki)
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. (Quote by - Henry James)
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. (Quote by - Margaret Sanger)
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me. (Quote by - Chuck Klosterman)
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. (Quote by - Frederick Law Olmsted)
I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated. (Quote by - Barbara Hershey)
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. (Quote by - Anna Jameson)
To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour. (Quote by - John G. D. Clark)
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction. (Quote by - Brian Ferneyhough)
I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project. (Quote by - Douglas Wood)
I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story. (Quote by - Pedro Almodovar)
No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show. (Quote by - Paul M. Glaser)
I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album. (Quote by - Catie Curtis)
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines. (Quote by - John Mellencamp)
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. (Quote by - Wallace Stevens)
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains. (Quote by - Walter Kaufmann)
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to by brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. (Quote by - Bible)
I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good. (Quote by - Michael Hutchence)
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment. (Quote by - Leonard Maltin)
The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. (Quote by - Fritz Todt)
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. (Quote by - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand)
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies. (Quote by - Samuel L. Jackson)
It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd Fast to the spot such root she took, And--like a sunflower by a brook, With face upturn'd--so still remain'd! (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. (Quote by - Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Too quick a sense of constant infelicity. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is. (Quote by - Rob Corddry)
You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you. (Quote by - Matthew Modine)
I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved. (Quote by - Bruce Davison)
THE parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. (Quote by - William Bartram)
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. (Quote by - Salman Rushdie)
I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely. (Quote by - Joanna Newsom)
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. (Quote by - Jonathan Miller)
