My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities — Camryn Manheim Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
People often say that I have a child's eye. For example, I stare at ants gathering around sugar, or when I seek… — Rinko Kawauchi Copy Share Image
What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
He blinked a few times, each motion so slow that he was never quite sure if he’d get his eyes open again.… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Inside Iran, people are actually quite well-educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people,… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan. — Billy Sheehan Copy Share Image
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know,… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I'm not this big Hollywood mainstream actress, but who cares? I think I just have a certain sensibility for smaller projects. I… — Melonie Diaz Copy Share Image
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When I get my feelings hurt, or when things scare me, or freak out my sensibilities, or when my feathers get ruffled,… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
