Sensibility Quotes · Page 8

Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

— Marilynne Robinson

I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

— Zephyr Teachout

When I was a kid in the '50s, I was very enamored of beatniks and... a kind of dark sensibility.

— Richard Belzer

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

— Robert Delaunay

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

— George Eliot

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

— William Rounseville Alger

Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is.

— Andrew Haigh

I am interested in the highbrow/lowbrow synthesis. My sensibility, I am proud to say, is middlebrow.

— Robert Christgau

I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a…

— Matthea Harvey

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

To me the tabloid sensibility, in the best sense of the word, and I think people as like tabloids have receded as…

— Lydia Polgreen

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to…

— Anthony Minghella

... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly…

— Catharine Beecher

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

— Frederick Law Olmsted

They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were…

— Neal Stephenson

The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious…

— Edward Hirsch

Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless…

— Bill Bryson

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is…

— Shawn Colvin

I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put…

— Anton Chekhov

I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I…

— Ben Stiller

I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But…

— Kij Johnson

Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

When I do operas, I'm not really singing very classically. I have a classical background as far as being a pianist and…

— Jason Graae

I know I have a signature. I know theres a New England sensibility. I know theres a cowboy sensibility. I think theres…

— Ralph Lauren

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.

— Romain Duris

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

— William Shakespeare

I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.

— Lisa Marie Presley

If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.

— Philippa Gregory

“(Note: Extreme sensibility of the French sometimes makes them difficult to deal with.)”

— E.M. Delafield

To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.

— Ben Macintyre

Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character.

— Rhianna Pratchett

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good

— Michael Hutchence

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the…

— Gale Anne Hurd

Franzen and I are both Midwesterners, so there's a shared sensibility there.

— Torrey Peters

Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.

— Will Ferrell

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

— Samuel Johnson

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet,

— E. O. Wilson

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

— Jill Abramson