Sense Quotes

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.

So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense.

I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.

People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.

I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.

There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.