Sensitive Quotes - Page 23

• I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

  Ann Macbeth

  Thinking, Long, Quality

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• I find that the majority of the actors I've worked with are extremely sensitive people and very spontaneous people. That's why I always say I'll never date an actor, because they're in love with you one day and the next day they're not.

  Ellen Muth

  Love You, Next Day, People

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

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• Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'

  Homer

  Baby, Population, Letters

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• George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

  Cesar Romero

  Play, Gone, May

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• Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

  Damon Albarn

  Writing, Years, Long

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• When you're single again, at the beginning you're very optimistic and you say, 'I want to meet someone who's really smart, really sweet, really sensitive.' And six months later you're like, 'Lord, any mammal with a day job.

  Carol Leifer

  Sweet, Jobs, Smart

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• I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart into it, I am instantly into him. I like a strong man who can be in control and make decisions but who is sensitive and attentive. That is the perfect combination.

  Meaghan Rath

  Strong, Heart, Ambition

  "Get to Know Being Human's Meaghan Rath". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2011.

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• The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He is not always on the defensive… To be truly meek means we no longer protect ourselves, because we see there is nothing worth defending… The man who is truly meek never pities himself, he is never sorry for himself. He never talks to himself and says, “You are having a hard time, how unkind these people are not to understand you.

  Martyn

  Sorry, Mean, Hard Times

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• Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

  David Suzuki

  Bird, Hydrogen, Canaries

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. August 29, 2003.

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• I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.

  Beth Gibbons

  Emotional, Sensitive Person, Impulsive

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• The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.

  Rollo May

  Strong, Symphony, Mature Person

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• On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature.

  Ferdinand von Mueller

  Beauty, Sadness, Inspire

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• Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it is worth risking if only it can end man's physical miseries. The trouble is that it can't. In a finite world, continually increasing consumption is just not possible.

  Joy Davidman

  Christian, Men, Greed

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• I'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

  Aurora Aksnes

  School, Kids, Impact

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

  Horace

  Horse, Teaching, Necks

  "Epistles", Book I. 2. 64, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 779-80, 1922.

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• The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

  Maya Angelou

  Encouragement, Heart, Needs

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.40, Random House

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• The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

  Max Beerbohm

  Art, Vitality, Sensitivity

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Seven Men”, p.15, The Floating Press

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• Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.

  Paul Simon

  Powerful, Law, Justice

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• Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Technique, Vary

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• Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?

  Stephen Sondheim

  Clever, Thrones, Passionate

  Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine (1988). “Into the Woods”, Crown

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• Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Modern Life, Unconventional

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women.

  Ray Charles

  Anchors, Needs, Gender

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (1978). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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• My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive.

  Edward Weston

  Eye, Ideas, Mind

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

  Frederick Sommer

  Art, Arbitrary, Chance

  Frederick Sommer (1984). “Sommer: Words”

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• Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Education, Years, Study

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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