top of page
.png){kind=small}
Sense Quotes
"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."
32
"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."
12
"I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all."
11
"The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell."
9
"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."
8
"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."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
7
"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."
7
"In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful."
7
"There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe."
6
"For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me."
6
"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."
6
"It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations."
5
"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."
5
"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."
5
"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
5
"Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world."
5
"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."
5
"To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it."
5
"A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need."
5
"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."
5
"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers."
5
"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."
4
"There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made."
4
"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."
4
"I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense."
4
"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."
4
"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."
4
"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."
4
"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
4
"So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue."
4
"Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will."
4
"If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble."
4
"You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense."
4
"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."
4
"Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense."
4
"What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency."
4
"So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes."
4
"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
4
"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."
4
bottom of page