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Quotes About Sensation

I smiled and I really felt at that moment that Judas and the Savior had met in me. [...] And yet even this was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me again—unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality.
~ James Baldwin
And I also felt, standing so close to him, feeling such a passion to keep him from terror, that a decision—once again!—had been taken from my hands. For neither my father nor Hella was real at that moment. And yet even this was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again—unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality.
~ James Baldwin
And yet even this was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again--unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality.
~ James Baldwin
Her voice reminded me for a minute of what heroin feels like sometimes—when it's in your veins.
~ James Baldwin
Indijanac je stvorenje što ?ete ga prije osjetiti nego vidjeti.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
The ceaseless motion and incomprehensible bustle of life. Feigenbaum recalled the words of Gustav Mahler, describing a sensation that he tried to capture in the third movement of his Second Symphony. Like the motions of dancing figures in a brilliantly lit ballroom into which you look from the dark night outside and from such a distance that the music is inaudible…. Life may appear senseless to you.
~ James Gleick
It is very uncomfortable to be dizzy 24 hours a day.
~ Bojan Krkic
I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.
~ Zola Budd
That's the power of music, a key sequence or a chord sequence or even a note can do something to you physically that's uncontrollable.
~ Edith Bowman
In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.
~ Charles Krauthammer
It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.
~ Francis Spufford
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
~ Samuel Alexander
I scored eight goals in 12 games against Spurs. I'm proud of this achievement because I know this rivalry is very important for the Arsenal fans - when you score eight times against Spurs you are an idol for them. And I know the Spurs fans hate me. I know this and it is a good sensation.
~ Robert Pires
When you play against Roger, it's always special. First, because you play in a big area, in a big stadium anyway. And every time the crowd is for him, so it's quite a good sensation.
~ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.
~ Jeff Lynne
I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh.
~ Armando Iannucci
When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.
~ Johnny Weir
I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.
~ Kevin Costner
Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.
~ Albert Einstein
It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
~ George Bernard Shaw
What more pleasant sensation than sunshine on skin, Spirit and flesh drinking in the light Of God and energy itself.
~ Terri Guillemets
The first sip of tea is always the best... you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottest carpe-diem portion.
~ Terri Guillemets
If you're a lay person listening to jazz, you don't necessarily understand everything that's happening within the form. But you get the sense of it, the feel of it, because you're getting to hear something that develops right in front of your face.
~ Jason Moran
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
~ Keith Richards