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Sense Quotes


"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."


"The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect."


"All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense."


"I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all."


"I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that."


"I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way."


"For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me."


"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."


"The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell."


"Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world."



"And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense."


"In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful."


"For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality."


"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."


"I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is."


"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."


"The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about."


"I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image."


"Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much."


"You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense."


"A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need."


"A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense."


"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."


"It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations."


"There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe."


"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."


"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television."


"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."


"You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world."


"Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense."


"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers."


"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."


"Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely."


"I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense."


"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."


"So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue."


"Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will."


"Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well."


"So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes."


"I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour."


"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
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