Quotes and Sayings about Sensibility
"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."
- Aristotle
(Related: Greatness, Cheerfulness, Mind, Suffering)
"The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature."
- William Bartram
(Related: Nature, Human nature, Sensibility)
"Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Time, Originality, Sensibility)
"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Cure, Egotism, Name, Self, Sensibility)
"Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure."
- Frances Burney
"I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility."
- Nicolas Cage
(Related: Sensibility)
"To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour."
- John G. D. Clark
(Related: Time, Thought, Europe, Name, Open, Sensibility, World)
"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."
- Shawn Colvin
(Related: People, Sensibility, Songs, Writing)
"In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: Order, Sensibility)
"The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Time, Feelings, Deeds, Man, Sensibility, Talking)
"People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is."
- Rob Corddry
(Related: People, Sensibility, Want)
"I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album."
- Catie Curtis
(Related: Sensibility, Want)
"I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved."
- Bruce Davison
(Related: Time, Logic, Numbers, Sensibility)
"Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement."
- Robert Delaunay
(Related: Light, Sensibility)
"I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love."
- Siobhan Fahey
(Related: Love, People, Gay, Sense, 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."
- Brian Ferneyhough
(Related: Idea, Indifference, Sensibility)
"Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself."
- Andy Garcia
(Related: Children, Daughters, Open, Sensibility)
"No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show."
- Paul M. Glaser
(Related: Sensibility)
"We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence."
- Remy de Gourmont
(Related: Intelligence, Sensibility)
"The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter."
- John Grierson
(Related: Corporate, Fact, May, Sensibility, Training, Will, World)
"You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Sensibility)
"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."
- Barbara Hershey
(Related: People, Actors, Film, Hollywood, Sensibility)
"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."
- Charlie Hunter
(Related: Jazz, Sensibility, Want)
"I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good."
- Michael Hutchence
(Related: Sensibility)
"I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies."
- Samuel L. Jackson
(Related: Movies, Sensibility)
"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."
- Henry James
(Related: Experience, Consciousness, Sensibility)
"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."
- Anna Jameson
(Related: Fool, Man, May, Sense, Sensibility, Want)
"My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own."
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
(Related: Sensibility, Writers)
"All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."
- Immanuel Kant
(Related: Thought, Sensibility)
"The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains."
- Walter Kaufmann
(Related: Artist, Man, Sensibility, Suffering, Understanding)
"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."
- Chuck Klosterman
(Related: Sensibility, Writing)
"People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet."
- Witold Lutoslawski
(Related: Music, People, Sensibility)
"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."
- Leonard Maltin
(Related: Thought, Film, Sensibility, Sentiment)
"I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines."
- John Mellencamp
(Related: Sensibility, Songs, Worry)
"Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility."
- Jonathan Miller
(Related: Deep, Errors, Fault, Sensibility, Taste)
"You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you."
- Matthew Modine
(Related: Hope, Sensibility)
"The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility."
- William Thomas Green Morton
(Related: State)
"He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways."
- Johannes P. Muller
(Related: Cause, Consequences, Facts, Nerves, Sensibility)
"I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely."
- Joanna Newsom
(Related: Deep, Folk, Sensibility)
"The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth."
- Frederick Law Olmsted
(Related: Power, Truth, Possession, Sensibility, World)
"Art is pattern informed by sensibility."
- Herbert Read
(Related: Art, Sensibility)
"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry."
- Salman Rushdie
(Related: Imagination, Artist, First, Sensibility, Tenderness)
"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."
- Margaret Sanger
(Related: Love, Marriage, Body, Desire, Earth, Sensibility, Woman)
"Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally."
- Adam Schiff
(Related: War, Genocide, Now, Sensibility, states, Terrorism, United, World)
"Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay."
- John Schlesinger
(Related: Life, Positive, Gay, Sensibility, Want)
"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."
- William Tecumseh Sherman
(Related: Courage, Danger, Measure, Sensibility)
"Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility."
- Susan Sontag
(Related: Failure, Judgment, Radical, Sensibility, Wrong)
"Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility."
- Wallace Stevens
(Related: American, Americans, English, Literature, Nothing, Sensibility)
"Zoolander was more of my own sensibility."
- Ben Stiller
(Related: Sensibility)
"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."
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
(Related: Art, Music, Intelligence, Perception, Consciousness, Media, Senses, Sensibility, Will)
"Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability."
- Shinichi Suzuki
(Related: Art, Work, Ability, Expression, Man, Personality, Sensibility)
"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Crime, Sensibility, Unhappiness)
"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."
- Fritz Todt
(Related: Time, Appearance, Projects, 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."
- Alex Winter
(Related: Movies, Saying, Sensibility, Will)
"I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project."
- Douglas Wood
(Related: Project, Sensibility, Voice, Writers)