Sensibility Quotes

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demographics could laugh at.

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.

I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I'm a good organiser.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.