The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Art making comes from the human desire to share something that is universal in one sense, but unique to your sensibility in… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's… — Paul Michael Glaser Copy Share Image
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
Inside Iran, people are actually quite well-educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people,… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I'm not this big Hollywood mainstream actress, but who cares? I think I just have a certain sensibility for smaller projects. I… — Melonie Diaz Copy Share Image
When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . .… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to 'like' one another. Love governs the will: 'liking' is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It's always been based around the song, and guitar-playing in the service of the song... The sensibility is about songs. I like… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
Frequently parents forget that children are people. I don't try to treat Kristen as an adult, but I do try to treat… — Kent McCord Copy Share Image
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
'Mad About You' fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Please, Lord Maccon, use one of the cups. My delicate sensibilities.” The earl actually snorted. “My dear Miss Tarabotti, if you possessed… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“No matter how much you love a man, always have a stash of money that would get you as far away from… — Dorothy Koomson Copy Share Image
The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and… — Patrick Lussier Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I'd say that I don't think you ever get… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
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… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed… — Mark Williams Copy Share Image
