Sensibility Quotes · Page 2

I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back.

— Barack Obama

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

— Guy Davenport

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

— Remy de Gourmont

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.

— Margaret Cho

So I never wanted to be an actor anyway, so I only do the films which appeal to me and my sensibility.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

— Stefano Gabbana

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

— Remy de Gourmont

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

— Edward Norton

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

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their…

— Georges Bizet

I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I…

— Chang-Rae Lee

A successful director is someone who has the combination of skills that you can learn, but there's also an intuitive sensibility that…

— Rick Heinrichs

When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they…

— John Ridley

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea…

— Richard Powers

“She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks.' 'I am sorry for that. At her…

— Jane Austen

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

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

I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high.…

— Frank Wildhorn

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

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

— Barbara Hershey

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

— Donald Ray Pollock

It would be the death of all creativity for me if I had to sit there and be concerned with the sensibilities…

— Robert Cormier

“Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby.…

— Jane Austen

Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only…

— Joanna Murray-Smith

“Well it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths...," I began.…

— Jennifer Donnelly

It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit…

— Guy Davenport

If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities?…

— Bill McKibben

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

“I once knew a weak woman of fashion, who was more than commonly proud of her delicacy and sensibility. She thought a…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might…

— Anonymous

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

— Jane Austen

There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.

— Alan Moore

a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

— Dodie Smith

My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.

— Sebastian Horsley

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

— Jane Addams

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

— Jennifer Stone

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

— George Eliot