Sense Quotes
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I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.
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Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.
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It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.
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If I make a decision it is a possession. I take pride in it, I tend to defend it and not listen to those who question it. If I make sense, then this is more dynamic, and I listen and I can change it. A decision is something you polish. Sensemaking is a direction for the next period.
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'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and a driver; would have to span all the genres and periods of jazz; would have to have run her own label; [would] possess a deep spirituality, with grace and a sense of humor; and would have to have succeeded against all odds. Who else? Mary Lou Williams.
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We try to instill a sense of fair play, a sense of honesty.
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One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
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My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.
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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.
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Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.
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I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.
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Common sense often makes a good law.
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I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
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It's not the timbre but the intonation. You're a questioner. You don't have the sense that you know exactly what you're talking about.
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Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
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When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.
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It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
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A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.
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He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
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Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.
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The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.
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Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all - clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn't have ended.
