Adequate Quote by Rachel Cohn Download Open image “There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.” — Rachel Cohn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adequate Dictionary Language Sensational
Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art...… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill… — Humberto Maturana Copy Share Image
The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
“You mean I'm not lazy? No bitch, I mean you intimidate guys with a look or a comment before they can even decide if… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Tal told me he loved me, and told me and told me, but you don't tell someone that and then tell them they're not… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“Someone should pay for their sins. I'll show you Awful, humans. I can't even see what I'm doing. All I know is rage, and… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I’m making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“In some ways, I think I'll never be over him', Langston said. 'That is such an unsatisfied answer' 'That's because you're interpreting it the… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present” — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“The reward is in the risk. I wanted so badly to believe, but the fear felt as great and overwhelming as the desire. I… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“Well, well, well,” Santa said once the elf had retreated. “Come and sit on my lap, little boy.” This Santa’s beard was real, and… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to… — Ernest Gold Copy Share Image
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration… — Jon Corzine Copy Share Image
All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can and do promote inner values. But the reality… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until… — Dan Gelber Copy Share Image
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image