Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band,… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
I’m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us,… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
I am interested in the highbrow/lowbrow synthesis. My sensibility, I am proud to say, is middlebrow. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I have to have the sensibility to keep Versace company in good shape because there are so many people working for it,… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Franzen and I are both Midwesterners, so there's a shared sensibility there. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to 'like' one another. Love governs the will: 'liking' is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier,… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a… — James Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've seen it personally that people have a natural sensibility to Arabic script. I don't know it if it's because of the… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel… — Vincent Gallo Copy Share Image
