Sensibility Quotes
Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability
Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.
While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is the self- confession of human sensibility.
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.
Judd Apatow, Conan O'Brien ... taking what you think is funny, and then adding another layer to it. That's kind of my sensibility. Those are the guys that make me laugh.
Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.
Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood
Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility.
Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me to answer because I feel like it's a sensibility that varies for each individual.
If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.
I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.
I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.
You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.
The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.
The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility
You can tell when women have a sensibility about, or a sense of bravery or a sense of understanding about their personal style that's outside of what you see from a magazine.
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
