Quotes About Sense

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

The open grasslands frightened him and he often got the sense that there was something awful waiting just out of sight over the horizon, and that one day it would come and eat him.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting…. Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Clues from chaos, sense from madness.

A pause. Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.

lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.' Tansy

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves. ... Lines give birth to lines. Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. ... Make a drawing flow, stopping sometimes, and going on. ... Search for the simple constructive forces, line the lines of a suspension bridge. Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out. ... Have purpose in the places where lines stop.

Sometimes the greatest fear and pain come from a sense of meaninglessness in life. Meaning is a choice, not a search, remember? A sense of meaninglessness is really, therefore, a call to let in higher awareness and truth.

Yes," he said, "in one sense, of course it is--utterly unreasonable.

Smell, the sense which somehow seems a joke, is the one most susceptible to outrage. It will give you no rest. One can close one's eyes to ugliness or shield the ears from sound; but from a powerful smell there is no recourse but flight.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

The world's going a little berserk. Too much greed and not enough good sense.

Take away memory—the sense of who we are—and human beings revert to animal behavior, Ryter says. And animals are easier to exterminate than humans.

Implicit in our sense of beauty is the thought of community—of the agreement in judgements that makes social life possible and worthwhile.

My sense of Shadow was dulled in this place which seemed in some way the essence of Shadow.

I am waiting for an arrival, a return, a promised sign... Everything is solemn: I have no sense of proportions.

It was testimony to Rockefeller's thoroughgoing sense of responsibility that he preserved each letter for review at home.

But common sense is deceptive precisely because it is based on common experience.

Ten bucks a day, just for clothes, made no sense at all until you figured a washing machine cost four hundred and a dryer another three and the basement to put them in implied a house which cost at least a hundred grand to buy and then tens of thousands a year in taxes and maintenance and insurance and associated bullshit. Then ten bucks a day for clothes suddenly made all the sense in the world.

On the wall between the flags was a clock. It was a big old round thing framed in mahogany. Looked like it had decades of polish on it. I figured it must be the clock from whatever old station house they bulldozed to build this new place. I figured the architect had used it to give a sense of history to the new building.

Colorado, one in East LA. 'Makes sense,' she

So if someone were to say he was God, that wouldn't have made any sense to them and would have been seen as clear-cut blasphemy. And it would have been counterproductive to Jesus in his efforts to get people to listen to his message.

I experienced an unspooling sense of freedom—genuine antagonism is something I've rarely encountered, and it felt good to respond with honesty instead of obsequious scraping.