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Quotes About Sensory

You are learning," Serafim said, "how to think with your body—how to leave your mind and come to your senses.
~ Dan Millman
Martin Silenus sniffed a jar, found a knife on the sandwich plate, and added great dollops of horseradish to his sandwich. His eyes sparkled with tears as he ate.
~ Dan Simmons
and nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books.
~ Dan Simmons
Metal teeth click shut in a steel vagina, missing his glans by a moist millimeter.
~ Dan Simmons
Only the descent of the writer to the world was more painful as he or she returned, trailing clouds of glory which quickly dissipated in the mundane flow of sensory trivia.
~ Dan Simmons
she returned, trailing clouds of glory which quickly dissipated in the mundane flow of sensory trivia.
~ Dan Simmons
I've never heard a writer feel that way about a device with a screen. Oh sure, they're functional, practical. We would be lost without them. But just as we need to feel our feet on the earth, smell and taste the world around us, the pen scratching against the page, sensory and slow, is the difference between looking at a high-definition picture of a flower and holding that very same flower in your palm, feeling the brush of its petals, the color of its stamen rubbing off on your fingers.
~ Dani Shapiro
the feeling of having in the middle of my body a ball of wool that quickly winds itself up, its innumerable threads pulling from the surface of my body to itself.
~ Daniel B. Smith
His research has shown that sensory signals from eye or ear travel first in the brain to the thalamus, and then—across a single synapse—to the amygdala; a second signal from the thalamus is routed to the neocortex—the thinking brain.
~ Daniel Goleman
I can see it, Ed, I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room, and your warmth signaled through to me from under your shirt, lovely strong, safe and right.
~ Daniel Handler
Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.
~ Daniel Handler
Fucking delish, I don't care if it's a faggy word, oops, sorry, no offense, sorry again. [i]Delish! Criminy![/i] This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.
~ Daniel Handler
A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact. with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling… But a world without feeling is a world without pain.
~ Daniel Keyes
Nu te gândi la muzic?.Trebuie doar s? o simÈ›i .Las-o s? se scurg? peste tine ca apa m?rii,fara a încerca s? o înÈ›elegi .
~ Daniel Keyes
By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling . . . but a world without feeling is a world without pain. Kevin
~ Daniel Keyes
If there is complete absence of delight, it only spells insentiency.
~ Daniel Odier
There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.
~ Peter Mayle
The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.
~ Eric Kandel
He is here. There is the sweet perfume of death in the air.' He drew a deep breath. 'I love it even more than the smell of fresh quimmy.
~ Wilbur Smith
All sounds have been as music to my listening
~ Wilfred Owen
In the case of lived experience, there is no difference between an object that is perceived and the eye that perceives it.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
see with nobody's eyes, we hear with nobody's ears, we feel with nobody's hearts, but our own.
~ Wilkie Collins
I smell your cigar. Delicious! Give me one directly.
~ Wilkie Collins