I had been taught that senses were the doorway to skills.

Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those…

— Louis Sachar

I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and…

— Christine Ebersole

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron…

— Lewis Mumford

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in…

— Walt Whitman

Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No…

— Russell Baker

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and…

— Henry David Thoreau

The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

— Costa Georgiadis

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

— Anais Nin

“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.”

— David Hume

Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally…

— Keith Lazelle

An odd thing happens when we die, our senses vanish. Taste, touch, smell and sound become a distant memory, but our sight? Ah, our…

— Desperate Housewives

Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through…

— Charles Lindbergh

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is…

— Walter Pater

It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms…

— Maria Montessori

“According to this model, human beings are, at least in one aspect, sensation-receiving machines; and although our receptory apparatus is competent to select and…

— Cruce Stark