All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility. — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I think people can at least appreciate the sensibility behind the position I have. It is not a pro-marijuana position. It is… — Jared Huffman Copy Share Image
The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only… — Alex Karpovsky Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility. — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
