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Quotes About Sensibility

I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good
~ Michael Hutchence
Passion paralyzes good taste.
~ Susan Sontag
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
~ Salman Rushdie
Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain.
~ Lata Mangeshkar
I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.
~ Susanne Bier
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit
~ Doris Day
Vanity dulls the senses.
~ Nadja Sam
The sudden heat of his tone made her colour mount again, not with a rush, but gradually, delicately, like the reflection of a thought stealing slowly across her heart.
~ Edith Wharton
How beautiful it was---and how she loved beauty! She had always felt that her sensibility in this direction made up for certain obtuseness of feeling of which she was less proud.
~ Edith Wharton
Live to the point of tears.
~ Albert Camus
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
~ Albert Ellis
You sh?ould? not have taken advantage of my sensibility to ste?al? into my affections without my consent. But as you have done it and as we are generally indulgent to those we love, I shall not scruple to pardon the fraud you have committed, on condition that for my sake, if not for your own, you will always continue to merit the partiality, which you have so artfully instilled into ?me?.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
~ Alexander Pope
Even as a teenager, my sensibility was different because my parents introduced me to some amazing films. I grew up watching films like 'Kabuliwala,' 'Casablanca,' and 'Mandi.'
~ Bhumi Pednekar
The '80s convergence of comics' new adult sensibility with the movies' advancing technology was bound to catch the attention of even slow-on-the-uptake Hollywood, and this particularly was true when 'Watchmen' and 'The Dark Knight Returns' became phenomena.
~ Steve Erickson
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
~ George Catlin
I would say that what we called the Pixar sensibility goes back even further. It is kind of a CalArts sensibility because so many of the people who are creative instrumental people at Pixar came from that school.
~ Rich Moore
I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write.
~ Jamila Woods
Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.
~ Dylan Moran
My favorite Wes Anderson movie is 'The Darjeeling Limited,' because I have two other brothers, and I just feel that connection so well. All of his films have something so great and unique about them, that I don't know how I would be if I don't like them. I wouldn't be me. My personality is his sensibility.
~ Tony Revolori
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.
~ Guy Davenport
I think I've got an Irish sensibility for language - I like how people talk. I'm not saying I've got it, but I'm obsessed with the way they use language, like they use a swear word very poetically.
~ Roisin Conaty
I am interested in the highbrow/lowbrow synthesis. My sensibility, I am proud to say, is middlebrow.
~ Robert Christgau