Sense Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.