Quotes About Sensitivity

She likes to lay her face against the upper reaches of his arm, that dark brown river, and to wake submerged within it, against the pulse of an unseen vein in his flesh beside her. The vein she would have to locate and insert a saline solution into if he were dying.

desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

Being a poet, the advantages of dyslexia are many, affording me sensitivity to the musical nuances of language and the ability to juggle complicated ideas and narratives simultaneously.

As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

I hope Britney doesn't get bummed out that Lindsey is a better singer. It is not Lindsey saying it, it's me. Lindsey would never say that. She's an actress first. It's just a bonus that she can dance and sing.

I wouldn't really call myself a Jazz singer I think it's offending to real Jazz singers to call me a Jazz singer.

If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing that makes the reader cry.

I have a really hard time watching my sister act in anything but especially anything where it's a strong emotion. Whether she's crying or she's angry or she's - whatever emotion she's feeling I actually think that she's feeling it and I want to hug her and make it all better.

My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.

I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

My sister can walk down the street and just know what's going on with people. She'll say, 'Oh, they're going through a divorce' or, 'Their kid just went off to college' or, 'He just got a great job.'

It is wrong for any person to ever judge someone in any situation saying, 'Well, why didn't you try to run? Why didn't you scream? Why didn't you try to do something?' That is so wrong and, frankly, offensive to even ask that question.

You have to put yourself in people's shoes in certain situations because you don't know what people really think or what they're really going through.

What I do isn't like 'The Sixth Sense,' I don't see dead people walking around when I'm sitting and looking at an audience of people.

My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.

There have been times where I have said, even in a sketch that I'm not in, 'I don't think you should be making that joke at the expense of Asian people.'

You can tell when people don't like you. Especially being a black man born and raised in the South in America, you can tell when people don't like you. It's just a skill that you get.

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

My skin is very sensitive.

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love.