Sensibility Quotes - Page 16

• In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

  Brit Hume

  Taken, America, Literature

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• I've been a lifetime Democrat, and I'm re-registering this year as an independent. It's strictly [because] my party, that I've been affiliated with all these years, doesn't stand for anything that I stand for anymore. They've lost any sensibility that they had, and they've allowed all the kooks in, so I'm going independent.

  Toby Keith

  Party, Independent, Years

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• I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

  Lillian Hellman

  Thinking, People, Guilt

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• To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

  Marcel Proust

  Suffering, Needs, States

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1127, Wordsworth Editions

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• Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Effort, Drug

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

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• It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

  George Santayana

  Men, Easy, Unhappiness

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.85, Рипол Классик

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• I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

  Barbara Hershey

  Character, Thinking, People

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• If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

  David Lehman

  Writing, Soul, Reviews

  David Lehman (2015). “The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014”, p.162, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• On the set, everybody is different, so you have to deal with different sensibilities. I don't have a method. Usually, I try to have a good connection with the actor that I'm filming. Even a guy who's there with two lines of dialogue, I always try to have a connection with the guy I'm filming, just to make it into a nice, enjoyable moment.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Nice, Two, Guy

  "Quentin Dupieux Talks WRONG COPS, Fast-Paced Shoots, and His Secret Project with Marilyn Manson". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 23, 2013.

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• My mom was always a fan of just really elegant, sophisticated pieces. I mean we grew up in Maine, so we didn't have a lot of call for black tie or anything, but I think I definitely got that sensibility from her.

  Anna Kendrick

  Mom, Mean, Thinking

  "Q&A: Anna Kendrick on modeling, movies and music". Interview with Nicole Evatt, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. October 24, 2014.

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• I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.

  Jack Nicholson

  Real, Stupid, People

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Giving, Purpose

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• I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

  Frank Oz

  Years, Nine, British

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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• Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Character, Eye, World

  "Go Forth (Vol. 16)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. October 4, 2013.

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• In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

  Alice Meynell

  Years, Heartache, Childhood

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.445, eBookIt.com

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• Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.

  George Sand

  Country, Art, Lying

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• Sensibility is the power of woman.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Women

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• These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that it affects their works. Of course, artists need sensibility; sensibility towards their environment and their community, but when they are stirred enough by their experiences in their society they can create their art in small studios.

  Guity Novin

  Art, Order, Community

  Negin magazine, No. 77, 1971.

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• I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather. And while climate may create a race, weather creates the temper and sensibility of the individual.

  Gertrude Diamant

  Race, Weather, Gold

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• I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

  Goes On, Slippery Slope, Intrigue

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

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• The sensibilities and the emotions of Muslims must be taken into consideration in the context in which we live today.

  Anjem Choudary

  Taken, Live For Today, Emotion

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high. And because there's always a wolf at the door, the emotions are high; the romance, the sexuality, friendships, and relationships. You don't know if the guy kissing you one minute is going to bite you the next. This heightens all of the sensibilities and emotions, and therefore, it sings to me. And that's where the music comes from.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Character, Kissing, Doors

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It's also very intimate. The audience is very close to the performers. The show is scary and the scary stuff always works best with an intimacy with the audience. And the show is erotic, and I think erotic always works best when it's close to the audience, as well.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Thinking, Scary, Erotic

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• Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

  Jennifer Stone

  Greed, Grace, Culture

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.

  Ben Macintyre

  Real, Mean, Elevation

  Ben Macintyre (2013). “Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche”, p.195, A&C Black

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