Sense Quotes

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like.

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.