Senses Quotes

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses.

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.