Sensibility Quotes · Page 7

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

— Edward de Bono

Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

— Marilynne Robinson

When I was a kid in the '50s, I was very enamored of beatniks and... a kind of dark sensibility.

— Richard Belzer

I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

— Zephyr Teachout

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

— Jonathan Miller

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

— Leven Rambin

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

— Fred Tomaselli

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

— Jodie Foster

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that…

— Alan Cumming

Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be…

— Amy Poehler

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility…

— Charlie Hunter

My mom was always a fan of just really elegant, sophisticated pieces. I mean we grew up in Maine, so we didn't…

— Anna Kendrick

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same…

— Joshua Mohr

I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man…

— William Cowper

Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about…

— John Schlesinger

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes,…

— Douglas Wood

I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances…

— Marc Jacobs

Culture and society determined sexual desirability as what makes us important so long that it's part of our sensibility from birth.Little girls…

— Cris Mazza

I do think they [French] view my writing itself as exotic - though that's probably not the best term for it -…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between…

— Barbara Hershey

And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling,…

— Oliver Sacks

The story of The Doors is one of the most compelling in the history of American rock music; three hugely talented musicians…

— Tom DiCillo

Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems…

— George Sand

If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So…

— Sandra Cisneros

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

— Jane Austen

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

— Markus Zusak

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the…

— Gale Anne Hurd

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

— Michael Hutchence

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before you get to 'SNL,' you have your own sensibility. And when you get to 'SNL,' it's the show's sensibility.

— Bill Hader

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

— Jill Abramson

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

— Samuel Johnson

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet,

— E. O. Wilson

Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.

— Will Ferrell

Franzen and I are both Midwesterners, so there's a shared sensibility there.

— Torrey Peters

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities

— Camryn Manheim

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.

— Donnie Wahlberg

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

— Billy Sheehan

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

— Luke Evans

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

— Robert Burns