Quotes About Sensibility

It was a destructive novel of acquired ideas. To finally wake up in a state of creative anguish, to lose oneself in order to find oneself again, to sleep in the arms of a beautiful student whose name one didn't know, to fall back to sleep over a love poem-that was called existence. The harmonics of artistic creation, of fertile sensibility, of anticipated events-history in movement-that was called a privilege.

enough to excite the artist in any man.

a cultura para massas surripia quanto pode da sensibilidade e da imaginação popu­lar para compensá-la com um lazer mínimo, entrecortado de imagens e slogans de propaganda.

Los nervios de punta, la razón ausente y el gesto detenido en un reloj averiado, parado en una fecha feliz y remota. Aquella insensibilidad repentina, de ritmo lento y ademanes mecánicos, era el signo de otro amor, el amor del cuerpo, de la piel herida en la memoria de los besos que no se repetirían

Acababa de descubrir una verdad desoladora y, a la vez, cómica: la sensatez era el consuelo de los débiles

No es que la belleza literaria no exista: sólo que es una experiencia tan incomunicable como los encantos de la Dulcinea para quien no es sensible a los mismos. Hay que apasionarse uno mismo o resignarse a no entender nunca nada.

Black Eyed Peas music appealed to everybody and that's why we incorporated EDM influences, dance influences, house influences, and we mashed it up with the Black Eyed Pea melodic pop sensibility that still has bounce to it.

I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn't play games growing up.

I didn't trust the film clips we'd been using to induce the emotions we wanted in infants (it takes a more developed comic sensibility to find bathing gorillas amusing, after all), so I decided to go with the basics: video clips of an actress laughing or crying.

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

Puesto que la vida es un extravio, se diría que el más sensato de los desengaños consiste en elaborar un extravio artificial, ordenado y lógico, en el mismo interior de ese extravio enmarañado e incontrolable.

Hay ciertas ocasiones en las que los seres humanos creen que pueden conseguirlo todo. En estos momentos, cuando todo su ser está empapado de esta creencia, ven muchas cosas que normalmente son invisibles para los ojos humanos. Luego, pasado un tiempo, incluso después de haber descendido hasta el fondo del pozo de la memoria, estos momentos reviven unos instantes y de nuevo les recuerdan a los hombres la milagrosa plenitud de las penas y las alegrías del mundo.

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.

He had made a fairly unambiguous pass at her, as she was getting out of the cab. But event that had come to nothing. Sheba said that she had sensed something resentful about him, as if he begrudged her for having the power to attract him.

Kenspeckle: Have you eaten? Valkyrie: One of your assistants brought me a burger for breakfast Kenspeckle: I meant, have you eaten sensibly? Valkyrie: I was very sensible while I was eating the burger. Didn't miss my mouth once

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

We work in the realm of the impression.

Straight women love a feminine sensibility in a man, but that love only goes up to, and unfortunately does not quite pass, the fact of his being an actual woman.

Beauty is the minimum," Grayson replied. But technique without artistic sensibility is worthless. (He looked down at the rests of the violin he had broken.) Beauty is a decoy.

Well so long as you're awake, does it matter how you were woken?

the extraordinary eighteenth-century proliferation of literature which glamorized romantic experience.

Vous ne pourrez jamais voir cette étoile comme je la voyais. Vous ne comprenez pas : elle est comme le cÅ"ur d'une fleur sans cÅ"ur.

Hay que vivir la pasión cuando se presenta, pero lo más sensato es no esperar nada de ella.