Quotes About Sense

I've always felt like an outsider in this industry, but that sense of community - that sense of belonging with your fans - it's an amazing feeling, and it's really inspiring.

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

We require experience to stay ahead, if only by a nose, of our consciousness of experience—if for no other reason than that the latter needs to make sense of the former, to (as Peyman would say) narrate it both to others and ourselves, and, for this purpose, has to be fed with a constant, unsorted supply of fresh sensations and events.

You don't logic, man. You sheer don't logic.

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.

We quickly notice how very few metaphors Jane Austen uses...we can see that Jane Austen's works do seem to aim at establishing ' a single world of discourse' and that she is not at all concerned to 'join a plurality of worlds'. Such a 'plurality' could lead to a potentially uncontrollable proliferation of ambiguities and possible meanings, whereas the drive of her writing seems to aim at a 'single' sense ... Jane Austen aims at a total transparency...

But sense or nonsense, that which motivates the plane of language cannot be resisted any more than that which motivates the plane of life.

by admitting a new perception of space and giving it an active sense, is it not possible to discover a new unexpected, unexplored world?

I didn't know Spartans came equipped with a sense of humor. Does that cost extra?" "No, sir," Fred said. "It's more of an operational bug.

Well, but that makes sense," Tsunami said. "You practically are a cute furry thing.

In books, everything had an explanation. She especially liked nonfiction: lots of facts and things had to make sense. If a question came up, eventually you got the answer. Every mystery was solved by the end. Facts fit together. When you wanted something explained, there it was, with no whispering or cold stares or slammed doors.

Harry Peake's spine disturbed the people's confidence in the proper shape and form of things, a confidence they had not known they possessed, it was stitched so deep in their sense of the order of the world.

but rather a solemn sense that since only Africans could define their problems, only Africans could fix them.

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.

And, in that mood, he was grateful to be in love. When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.