Sensational Quotes

• After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”

  Ava Gardner

  Hands, Directors, Tests

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

  Norma Shearer

  Rigged

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• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Positive, Beautiful

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• The simplification of anything is always sensational.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simplification

  "Varied Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

  Anthony Hecht

  Children, Strange, Should

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• It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

  Robert Wagner

  Series

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• Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

  Harry Houdini

  Kings, Fire, Coal

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

  Walter Isaacson

  Kindness, Thinking, Trying

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• I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

  Brian Wilson

  Believe, Feelings, Intuition

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• Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.

  Ernie Pyle

  Gun, Literature, Enough

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Men, Attractive

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.52, BookBaby

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• I'm a truth seeker. That's what I do every day on the show - put out the truth. Some people don't like it, they call it sensational, but I say life is sensational.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Life Is, Truth Seekers

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• Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it.

  GG Allin

  Picks

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• We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future.

  Warren Buffett

  Ingredients

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I don't discuss my family with the press; I discuss my family with my family. If you notice, when you hear something sensational in the press about me, I don't respond to it publicly, because a lot of things are put out there simply for the attention. Things that are meaningful, you don't need to talk about.

  Al B. Sure!

  Meaningful, Attention, My Family

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you have to give people a reason to click through. Blogs need to be real and personal. Reading it should be like hanging out with you. I play music for my readers. I show them videos I like. I tell them what I did over the weekend. And I tell them what is happening in the technology, Internet, and VC markets.

  Fred Wilson

  Success, Business, Real

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• To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.

  Constant Lambert

  Taken, Bombs, Melancholy

  "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert , "The Revolutionary Situation", p. 32, 1934.

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• What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

  Robert Hughes

  Running, Art, Thinking

  "A bastion against cultural obscenity". www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2004.

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• They [ Respublicans] wanna argue the sensational which is about abort not certain cases of abortion, but the fact is it's a fundamental disrespect for women - women's judgment about the sizing and time of their families.

  Barack Obama

  Abortion, Disrespect, Fundamentals

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Touching, Skins

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• At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the politician who betrays his trust, of the big business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the position he has disgraced. Expose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remember that even in the case of crime, if it is attacked in sensational, lurid, and untruthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fashion, Business, Men

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• When I hear about some sensational new writer I sort of think, Shut up ... you've got to be around for a long time before you can really say you're a writer. You've got to stand the test of time, which is the only real test there is.

  Martin Amis

  Real, Thinking, Long

  "Martin Amis: I wasn’t trying to impress my father". Interview with Jane Graham, www.salon.com. July 24, 2013.

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• The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  School, Artist, Mad

  "The Allowable Rhyme". Book by H. P. Lovecraft, 1915.

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• The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to condense itself into one big chance, and stand out before him like a salmon on the top wave of a rapid. He sees his luck hangs by a single strand of gut, and he cannot tell whether it will hold or break. This is the thrilling moment and he never forgets it.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things”, p.23, Read Books Ltd

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