Sensibility Quotes · Page 6

Being a great horseman does not rely on physical strength but more on the mind and sensibility.

— Charlotte Casiraghi

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

— Edward Norton

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

— Remy de Gourmont

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.

— Romain Duris

I am interested in the highbrow/lowbrow synthesis. My sensibility, I am proud to say, is middlebrow.

— Robert Christgau

Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is.

— Andrew Haigh

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

— Robert Delaunay

I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their…

— Georges Bizet

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a…

— T. S. Eliot

Obviously we have a sensibility that's aligned to everything we've done but we try not within certain ways to repeat ourselves.

— Ron Mael

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and…

— Catharine Beecher

I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's…

— Elizabeth Reaser

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of…

— T. S. Eliot

The hearts of some women tremble like leaves at every breath of love which reaches them, and they are still again. Others,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former.…

— Paul Horgan

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in…

— Woody Allen

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does…

— C. Wright Mills

Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis…

— Laurence Sterne

What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good…

— Sam Hamill

Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. So I feel…

— Jim Gaffigan

I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high.…

— Frank Wildhorn

Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of…

— Hamid Drake

The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a…

— Janet Fitch

Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity…

— Jeremy Rifkin

That America is in the calamity is a result of a certain amount of elitism in the Democratic Party where they're tied…

— Van Jones

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

— George Eliot

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

— William Rounseville Alger

To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.

— Ben Macintyre

“(Note: Extreme sensibility of the French sometimes makes them difficult to deal with.)”

— E.M. Delafield

Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character.

— Rhianna Pratchett

If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.

— Philippa Gregory

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

— William Shakespeare

I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.

— Lisa Marie Presley

I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.

— Joe Manganiello

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

— Samuel L. Jackson

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.

— Nicolas Cage

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

— Bill Vaughan