Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility, living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing… — Adele Copy Share Image
When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
in Divorce American style, there was the discomfort of seeing one of the beautiful wasted actresses of the screen, Jean Simmons. Her… — Jean Simmons Copy Share Image
There is more interest in what is occurring in technology companies that impact news. Such companies don't have the same sense of… — Tom Rosenstiel Copy Share Image
Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed, she is so kind hearted that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A director could be 20 years old and an actor 60, or vice versa; it doesn't matter. It's about connecting sensibility and… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I think seeing is about truly looking, observing, and taking things in with an open mind. It's easy to see things at… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you are dealing with life from a low-level sensibility, the Internet can be a tool for manifesting that. But if you're… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
There's something about the American sensibility that kind of hails people in the public eye. You have a star system. You have… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image