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Sense Quotes
"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."
98
"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."
60
"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."
47
"The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell."
46
"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."
45
"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."
45
"A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense."
45
"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."
44
"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television."
43
"Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world."
42
"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."
41
"So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes."
41
"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers."
41
"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."
40
"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."
40
"I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all."
38
"Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much."
38
"Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different."
38
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
38
"Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will."
37
"In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful."
37
"I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front."
37
"For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me."
36
"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
36
"To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it."
36
"It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band."
35
"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."
35
"A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need."
35
"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."
34
"I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense."
34
"I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies."
34
"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."
33
"It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations."
33
"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."
33
"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."
33
"You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense."
33
"The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it."
32
"I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me."
32
"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."
32
"For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality."
32
"So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue."
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