Sensibility Quotes · Page 8

Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.

— Sara Genn

“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

— John Elkann

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

— Leighton Meester

“When you had as little money as the Sargents did, sensibility in all matters was ingrained young. In”

— Maggie Stiefvater

Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.

— Germaine Greer

My mom was a model, and her laid-back but put-together sensibility really rubbed off on me.

— Tony Parker

“When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to…

— G.K. Chesterton

I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were…

— John Polson

Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name…

— Talal Asad

I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in…

— Eric Roberts

I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel…

— Vincent Gallo

“Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed, she is so kind hearted that…

— Leo Tolstoy

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the…

— Al Pacino

When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of…

— Joseph O'Neill

On the set, everybody is different, so you have to deal with different sensibilities. I don't have a method. Usually, I try…

— Quentin Dupieux

Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child… Leave his sensibilities, his emotions,…

— D. H. Lawrence

It's probably more frustrating to me as an Iranian living in America than it is when I'm over there. Inside Iran, people…

— Hooman Majd

We can try to gain some of the sensibility of some of the indigenous populations of the world or our predecessors 800…

— Noam Chomsky

There has been times when we've had really great commercial success in various parts of the world. And the sensibility is something…

— Ron Mael

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation…

— Marcel Duchamp

The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction…

— Jan Morris

If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

— David Lehman

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

— Will Smith

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

— Henry Ward Beecher

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you

— Yasmin Mogahed

My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

— Siobhan Fahey

I have great respect for Craig Lucas. I absolutely adore his sensibility.

— Julie Halston

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.

— Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver

Women are just different. Their sensibilities are different.

— Mel Gibson

The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.

— Fitz-Greene Halleck

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

— Quentin S. Crisp

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

— Joanna Newsom

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

— Yves Klein

It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.

— George Pope Morris