Sense Quotes

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

My point is, there's no sense trying to squeeze something out of your swing if you can let your clubs do the shotmaking for you.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have won the election.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.