Sense Quotes

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.

A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.

The Who had a great sense of humor. And they were also very serious when it came down to making music.

How in the world was I alone? Because I wanted to be. That's all I can say. It's all that makes sense to me.

[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely written treatise regarding the black list era.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

Everything’s a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.

Instead of just being a band that's constantly replacing members, we figured we'd done all of the stuff we wanted to do. It seemed to make sense to see if we could live our lives without the band.

The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination more and create your own way to make it all make sense.

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.

From my dad ... I think we have a similar sense of humor. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but I think he's funny!

Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state.

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.

At the end of the day, though, the entire basis for consent laws doesn't make sense. We're not old enough to decide if we don't want a baby, but we are old enough to have one?

Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.

Never buy a fur from a vegetarian.

A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.

I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.

My relationship with my wife is fraught with all of the problems that any couples face, but there is a sense of humor that we have about it and a real desire to want to make it better.

Sometimes the world is just out of our control and we like to blames ourselves so that we can make sense out of it.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.

I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong sense of place.

Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

It would be a nice problem to have. It would mean we had reached the final. I'd like to think common sense would prevail and we'd have the use of both of them.

Pixar makes movies that make sense for Pixar, and Disney makes movies that make sense for Disney, and they've each emerged in their own unique way.

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

People have a sense of humor, even if it's not a good one, and everybody has stakes.

Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.