Sensitive Quotes - Page 28

• A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fun, Boys, Ordinary

  1903 John Tanner. Man and Superman, act 1.

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• The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the climate at times depresses him.

  Anais Nin

  Depressing, Tired, Men

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• The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

  Karl Marx

  Art, Enjoy, Products

  Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

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• For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the beautiful.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Flower, Heart

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.254

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• He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me, than to others. His intense mind and powerful feelings would, I truly believe, have done the world some service, had his life been spared but he was of too sensitive a nature and thus he was destroyed!

  John Keats

  Powerful, Believe, Feelings

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats: Lamia (Unabridged Edition): A Narrative Poem from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, best known for Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Indolence, Ode to Psyche, The Eve of St. Agnes, Hyperion…”, p.365, e-artnow

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• I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.

  Courteney Cox

  Real, People, Actors

  "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.

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• The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have to remain absolutely sensitive to every nuance of the behavior of the people around you. Because, ultimately, if you don't keep in mind the overall humanity, then the machine takes over and suddenly all you have are technically fine shots, technically good performances. The story's being told, but something's lacking, something mysterious, indefinable.

  Irvin Kershner

  People, Humanity, Mind

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• In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork." For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit." Very.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Teamwork, People, May

  "The strengths of the academic enterprise" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. February 9, 1994.

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• I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, "I'm happy all the time! I'm a joker! I'm a crazy man!" I think people understand that I can turn that switch on but that I'm also a sensitive, normal human being with feelings and I know how to express those too.

  Jim Carrey

  Crazy, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Devin Faracii, www.chud.com. December 20, 2005.

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• Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion - pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come.

  George F. Kennan

  Morning, Clever, Sleep

  "George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy". Book by David Allan Mayers, p. 30, 1988.

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• At Christmas, individuals are apportioned their roles in the family script - you're either the funny one or the sensitive one; or you either do the cooking or the washing up. And those roles aren't easy to change.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Cooking, Roles, Scripts

  "Archipelago - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Change shakes us up, and we can thank our Muse for it... we are driven by change to create, to excel, and to become better humans, perhaps even more sensitive humans!

  Max Elliott Slade

  Change, Muse, Driven

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• Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.

  John French Sloan

  Quality, Paint, Tricks

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• Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

  John French Sloan

  Wall, Couple, Mistake

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• We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.

  Seth Shostak

  Sight, Bus Stops, Years

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• Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Passion, Soul, Would Be

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• War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.

  Cesare Pavese

  Appreciation, Regret, War

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.138, Transaction Publishers

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• Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is made of particles.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Light, Enough, Weak

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Light, Class, Finals

  Statement to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, Massachusetts August 27, 1880. Published as "On the Production and Reproduction of Sound by Light", American Journal of Sciences, Third Series, Volume XX, No.118, pp. 305-324, October 1880.

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• The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Girl, Light, Color

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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• A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.

  Richard Jeni

  Yoga, Hypocrite, Yelling

  "A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.

  Georges Bernanos

  Thinking, Lust, Faces

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.124, Da Capo Press

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• You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.

  Richard Pryor

  Sex, Men, Scary

  "The time of his life" by William Cook, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2004.

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• Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Stars, Children, Dark

  H.P. Lovecraft (2005). “At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition”, p.107, Modern Library

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• Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point. We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear--and a voracious mouth to swallow.

  Bram Stoker

  Eye, Cities, Paris

  Bram Stoker (2015). “The Burial of the Rats”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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