Sense Quotes

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Identity

• Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Religious
  • Sense
  • Did

• All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Esteem

• In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Love
  • Memories
  • Anger

• I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get very overexcited and silly.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Sense
  • Silly
  • Sophisticated

• She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Love
  • Human
  • Word

• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • End
  • Kid

• Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Sense
  • Cities
  • Big

• I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Life
  • Security

• It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Life
  • Me
  • Mood

• The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Sense
  • Sexes
  • Misunderstandings

• The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • God
  • Sense
  • Enthusiasm

• One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Family
  • Me
  • Humor

• The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Words
  • Sense
  • Misunderstood

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Jazz

• Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.

  

  Steve McQueen
  • Brain
  • Sense
  • Give

• I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Living
  • Lucky
  • Knowing

• I was certainly more vulnerable, in a sense, but I also felt more open to it, ... Elizabethtown.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Vulnerable
  • Certainly
  • Elizabethtown

• Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Great
  • Me
  • Satisfaction

• Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

  

  E. B. White
  • American
  • Humor
  • Sense

• Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Way

• If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Sex
  • Humour
  • Avoided

• All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Great
  • May
  • Imagination

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