Sensations Quotes - Page 19

• Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

  Armand Assante

  Emotional, Acting, Love Emotion

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• Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

  Rick Allen

  Sex, Focus, Drug

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• I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

  Van Cliburn

  "Cold War, Hot Pianist. Now Add 50 Years" by Anthony Tommasini, www.nytimes.com. March 9, 2008.

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• A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery.

  Ellen Forney

  Light, Mind, Batteries

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• I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.

  Daniel Gillies

  Depressing, Rain, Air

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

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• London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Smell, Light

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• I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Want, Condensation

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• Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

  Philip Guston

  Memories, Artist, Magic

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.278, Univ of California Press

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• It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious

  Esther Williams

  Water, Audience, Invited

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• A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive.

  Cyril Connolly

  Real, Passion, Two

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• I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.

  Tayeb Salih

  Mother, Water, Naked

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• Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.

  Sam Vaknin

  Hate, Omnipotence, Narcissism

  Sam Vaknin (2014). “A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible”, p.714, Narcissus Publishing

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• In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Gay, Cycling, Identity Politics

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• One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck.

  Scott Adams

  Knowledge, Thinking, Ideas

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• With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

  Douglas Coupland

  Clueless, Years, Knowing

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• There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dream, Men, Sea

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.212, Diderot Publishing

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• I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the thoughts running through my mind. Everything is clearer, heightened. I might be more addicted to this clarity than I am to running itself.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Mind, Details

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• Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own

  Elizabeth Grosz

  Art, Gains, Chaos

  Elizabeth Grosz (2012). “Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth”, p.16, Columbia University Press

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• The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.

  Anthony Doerr

  Narrative Structure, Miracle, Chocolate

  Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science. If there is any such concept as a God, it is a subtle spirit, not an image of a man that so many have fixed in their minds. In essence, my religion consists of a humble admiration for this illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Religious, Humble

  Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• Autism isn't something a person has, or a shell that a person is trapped inside. There's no normal child hidden behind the autism. Autism is a way of being. It is pervasive; it colors every experience, every sensation, perception, thought, emotion and encounter - every aspect of existence. It is not possible to separate the autism from the person – and if it were possible, the person you'd have left would not be the same person you started with.

  Jim Sinclair

  Children, Color, Autism

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• I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.

  Euan Uglow

  Trying, Doe, Looks

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• A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain changes in thought, to mind; certain order singly, to causation - and joined to time, to law.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Order, Law, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1771, Manonmani Publishers

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• He deserves ten out of ten for doing what he does. He is a sensation, but still he can improve. He must know when to move the ball on quickly and when to try the impossible mission. When he learns this, he won't win a single Golden Ball, but an entire collection.

  Johan Cruijff

  Moving, Winning, Trying

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• We hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty of our planet from above, the stars in all their glory and the amazing sensations of weightlessness and space flight.

  Richard Branson

  Dream, Stars, Future

  "Now Virgin to offer trips to space". www.cnn.com. September 27, 2004.

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