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I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.
~By Norman Wisdom ~


After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.
~By Herb Kohl ~


Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
~By Norman O. Brown ~


I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.
~By Linda Gray ~


Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
~By Hannah Arendt ~


The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
~By Arthur Hertzberg ~


I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
~By Pam Grier ~


I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
~By Shania Twain ~


Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
~By George Santayana ~


So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~


I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.
~By Geddy Lee ~


Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
~By Arthur Erickson ~


It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
~By H. L. Mencken ~


No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
~By E. M. Forster ~


The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
~By Lord Byron ~


To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
~By Alcaeus ~


The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
~By Christopher Lasch ~


Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
~By Thomas Huxley ~


I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.
~By Derek Bailey ~


I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~


All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.
~By Robert Creeley ~


If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
~By Wayne Dyer ~


When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.
~By Mike Myers ~


I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.
~By Ric Keller ~


The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~


Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
~By William Penn ~


In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
~By Catharine MacKinnon ~


It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
~By Anton Seidl ~


I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
~By Tiberius ~


I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.
~By Emily Mortimer ~


Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
~By Robert Morgan ~


There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~


Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.
~By Joel Hodgson ~


It was a wealthy family, and they heard me talk about movies, and they told me I should go into movies. That's the benefit of hanging out with rich people; they have no sense of what is or isn't possible.
~By Michael Patrick Jann ~


Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
~By Mark Van Doren ~


There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.
~By Peter Gay ~


I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.
~By Kim Kardashian ~


Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.
~By Peter Asher ~


I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.
~By Christie Hefner ~


Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~


Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
~By William Blake ~


From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
~By Robert Trout ~


HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.
~By Mathieu Kassovitz ~


It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.
~By Nelson Rockefeller ~


I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
~By Luke Ford ~


I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line. They share and deal with that sense of risk every day, so I got to see that up close.
~By Ryan Reynolds ~


Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
~By Marilyn French ~


He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
~By Sarah Bernhardt ~


After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
~By Marie Curie ~


The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
~By Francis Bacon ~


It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~


Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
~By George Jean Nathan ~


Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled.
~By Andre Agassi ~


If you sense there must be more, there is more.
~By Alan Cohen ~


Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
~By Bertrand Russell ~


In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
~By Philip Larkin ~


To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.
~By Jeff Goldblum ~


But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.
~By Jessica Hagedorn ~


Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
~By Martin Heidegger ~


I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.
~By Gil Gerard ~


I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.
~By Christopher Walken ~


A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~


The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
~By Harold Rosenberg ~


We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.
~By Robbie Keane ~


I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.
~By Joanne Woodward ~


If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.
~By Gerry Mulligan ~


On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~


Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~


The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.
~By Peter Maxwell Davies ~


I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.
~By Kristin Hersh ~


We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~


I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.
~By Derek Jacobi ~


Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
~By Alexander Pope ~


You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
~By Aeschylus ~


I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
~By William J. Clinton ~


Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation.
~By Peter Singer ~


Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
~By Daniel De Leon ~


I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly.
~By Bobby Rahal ~


When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.
~By Menachem Mendel Schneerson ~


Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.
~By Armstrong Williams ~


It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
~By Wayne Dyer ~


When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
~By Henri Bergson ~


Common sense is genius in homespun.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~


Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
~By Blaise Pascal ~


I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.
~By Douglas Wood ~


I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.
~By Loretta Lynn ~


In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
~By Emma Goldman ~


People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.
~By Nigella Lawson ~


I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
~By Kim Campbell ~


It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
~By Max Eastman ~


Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
~By Mencius ~


Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
~By Jim Morrison ~


Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
~By Steve Ballmer ~


So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.
~By Billy Sherwood ~


But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
~By Vernor Vinge ~


Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~


You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~


I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
~By Chrissie Hynde ~


I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.
~By Karl Malone ~


Art is a sense of magic.
~By Stan Brakhage ~

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June 10 ,2023
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