Sense Quotes

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.

I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. 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.

I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

I don't think he's permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

I have a really terrible sense of direction.

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

I'm here to make sense.

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.