Senses Quote by Jack McDevitt Download Open image “There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.” — Jack McDevitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Senses Silence Unwelcome
Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air. — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
Silence is not the absence of anything, but the presence of everything. — Swami Premodaya Copy Share Image
Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Silence is so often applauded and those who speak out are often called tasteless. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong.… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“...those whose tastes run to personal power [can] never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.” — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it? — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“According to this model, human beings are, at least in one aspect, sensation-receiving machines; and although our receptory apparatus is competent to select and… — Cruce Stark Copy Share Image
It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally… — Keith Lazelle Copy Share Image
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes. — Costa Georgiadis Copy Share Image
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and… — Christine Ebersole Copy Share Image