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Quotes About Sensory

I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.
~ Daniel Tammet
Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind rebels against bland, single-texture foods, edibles that do not engage the oral device.
~ Mary Roach
We always describe a piece as 'really lively' where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.
~ Jerry Yang
The body's like a huge ear. It's as simple as that.
~ Evelyn Glennie
he was experiencing did not seem
~ Stuart Woods
I read for a while and then slept the way you do with a tummy full of red meat and a shitload of cholesterol coursing through your veins.
~ Sue Grafton
couldn't think when I'd last run into a man quite so inventive. My reaction to him was gut-level chemistry—like crystals of sodium flung in a swimming pool, throwing off sparks, dancing across the water like light. I had a friend once who said to me, "Wherever there is sex, we work to create a relationship that's worthy of it." I thought about that now, sensing that soon I would do that with him—start to bond, start to fantasize, start
~ Sue Grafton
We walked to the woods beside the pink house with her stories still pulled soft around our shoulders. I could feel them touching me in places, like an actual shawl.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Quietness has a strange, spongy hum that can nearly break your eardrums
~ Sue Monk Kidd
The moment she lifted me, I was wrapped in her smell. The scent got laid down in me in a permanent way and had all the precision of cinnamon.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Notalar beÅŸi geçmez, ama beÅŸ notan?n bileÅŸimleri duyulmad?k melodiler yarat?r. Renkler beÅŸi geçmez, ama beÅŸ rengin bileÅŸimleri görülmedik renkler yarat?r. Tatlar beÅŸi geçmez, ama beÅŸ tad?n bileÅŸimleri tad?lmad?k tatlar yarat?r.
~ Sun Tzu
They could smell a strangeness in the breeze that blew faintly on their faces down the hill; a beckoning smell of salt and seaweed and excitement.
~ Susan Cooper
The combination of his teeth gently grating on her skin and his tongue flicking back and forth was the most erotic experience of her life. A sad statement on her sexual experiences, but still true.
~ Susan Mallery
The first was that he drew her earlobe into his mouth and sucked. It didn't sound like much. Had someone described the event to her she would have been mildly impressed, but not overly so. However, having it actually happen was very different.
~ Susan Mallery
her body was stirring as heat sparked and her girl parts woke up. No
~ Susan Mallery
In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed.
~ Susan Sontag
The longing to touch / be touched. I feel gratitude when I touch someone—as well as affection, etc. The person has allowed me proof that I have a body—and that there are bodies in the world.
~ Susan Sontag
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life--its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness--conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
~ Susan Sontag
I am thinking—talking—in images. I don't know how to write them down. Every feeling is physical.
~ Susan Sontag
El acto fotográfico, un modo de certificar la experiencia, es también un modo de rechazarla: cuando se confina a la búsqueda de lo fotogénico, cuando se convierte la experiencia en una imagen, un recuerdo. El viaje se transforma en una estrategia para acumular fotos. La propia actividad fotográfica es tranquilizadora, y mitiga esa desorientación general que se suele agudizar con los viajes.
~ Susan Sontag
Train yourselves by seeking and acknowledging beauty moment by moment every day of your lives, he told them. Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color.
~ Susan Vreeland
Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color.
~ Susan Vreeland
Look and look and don't ever forget. Now, close your eyes. Here, give me your hand. And just feel. Can you feel the Earth move?
~ Susan Vreeland
Do you feel the magic?" "Aye," he breathed into her salt-dusted hair. "It's all around me, but most especially, here in my arms.
~ Susan Wiggs