To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
~By Stephen Fry ~
All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
~By Ann Druyan ~
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
~By James Thurber ~
I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.
~By Sharon Olds ~
I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.
~By Ruben Blades ~
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 ~
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
~By e. e. cummings ~
For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.
~By Grandmaster Flash ~
I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.
~By Roger Vadim ~
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
~By Candice Bergen ~
We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.
~By Paul Simon ~
A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.
~By Knute Rockne ~
Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.
~By Sharon Gless ~
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
~By Marilyn French ~
Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
~By Peter Jennings ~
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
~By Walter Pater ~
I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
~By Chrissie Hynde ~
Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.
~By Chris Matthews ~
Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.
~By Fred L. Turner ~
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.
~By Godfried Danneels ~
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
~By Peter Lewis Allen ~
What is good about the United States is the sense that you can disagree with the government and not be seen as unpatriotic, although many in the government will try to make you seem unpatriotic.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
~By Edvard Munch ~
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
~By Dean Acheson ~
I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.
~By Tim Berners Lee ~
Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
~By Ansel Adams ~
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
~By Max Eastman ~
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.
~By Robert Moog ~
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
~By Clement Mok ~
But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
~By Arthur Helps ~
People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time.
~By Gerry Mulligan ~
The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.
~By Flann O'Brien ~
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
~By Floyd Abrams ~
My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.
~By Brit Hume ~
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 have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.
~By Josiah Royce ~
I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.
~By Simon Pegg ~
Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.
~By Stephen Hadley ~
If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.
~By Brit Hume ~
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
~By Franz Kafka ~
I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.
~By Lee Tergesen ~
I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
~By Garth Ennis ~
Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
~By Dan Simmons ~
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
~By Walter Gilbert ~
God has a most wicked sense of humor.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
~By Karl Marx ~
Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
~By Lech Walesa ~
That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.
~By Gunther Schuller ~
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
~By Sissela Bok ~
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
~By George Berkeley ~
We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.
~By Morrie Schwartz ~
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
~By Ernest Renan ~
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family.
~By Doc Hastings ~
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.
~By Donald Fagen ~
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
~By Josh Billings ~
It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
~By Jeanette Rankin ~
Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
~By Tab Hunter ~
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.
~By Betty Buckley ~
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
~By Jason Alexander ~
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
~By Major Taylor ~
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
~By Federico Fellini ~
I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.
~By William Godwin ~
I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.
~By Kevin McDonald ~
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.
~By Max Beckmann ~
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.
~By C. Everett Koop ~
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
~By John McGahern ~
With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.
~By Niklas Zennstrom ~
I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.
~By Diana Ross ~
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.
~By Oliver North ~
My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
~By Terry Southern ~
Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.
~By Rupert Sheldrake ~
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