Sense Quotes

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

I think for a lot of people that had seen me do 'Snabba Cash,' after watching 'The Killing,' I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.

I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Ron Paul's crazy talk about the Federal Reserve makes more sense these days. Right now, every - all this debt issued by the United States people assume the Chinese are buying, no they don't want any more American debt. Ron Paul has a point there.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.

In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.