Quotes with sensibility

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

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  • George Eliot It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bill Bryson Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Carolina Herrera A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Anna Jameson A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Immanuel Kant 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
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Susan Sontag Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bill Hader Before you get to 'SNL,' you have your own sensibility. And when you get to 'SNL,' it's the show's sensibility.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Carl Sagan By far the best way I know to engage the religious sensibility, the sense of awe, is to look up on a clear night.
    The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • William T. Sherman Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
    William T. Sherman
    American businessman
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  • Jonathan Miller Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
    Jonathan Miller
    English theatre and opera actor, author and television presenter (1934 - )
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  • Henry James 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
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Adele 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.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bruce Davison 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
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • William T. Sherman I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
    William T. Sherman
    American businessman
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  • Susan Sontag Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Wallace Stevens Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee 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 Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Adam Schiff 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
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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