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 ~
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!
~By Wilfred Owen ~
If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.
~By Meg Tilly ~
I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
~By Michael Crapo ~
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
~By Tabitha Soren ~
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
~By John Thorn ~
You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.
~By Tom Wilkinson ~
Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.
~By Zach Wamp ~
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
~By Norman O. Brown ~
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
~By S. I. Hayakawa ~
My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
~By David Duchovny ~
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 ~
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
The Fuhrer is always right. I sense it.
~By Robert Ley ~
I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.
~By John Pomfret ~
So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.
~By Mary Chapin Carpenter ~
I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.
~By Linda Gray ~
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island.
~By Christopher Atkins ~
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 ~
I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.
~By Bob Anderson ~
People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.
~By Bill Irwin ~
Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.
~By Roger Moore ~
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
~By Ben Nicholson ~
It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.
~By Peter Benenson ~
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
~By Stephen Fry ~
My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.
~By Emma Bonino ~
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
~By George Crumb ~
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
~By E. B. White ~
I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.
~By Michael Chabon ~
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
~By Norman Cousins ~
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
~By Dean Acheson ~
The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.
~By Jessica Lange ~
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
~By Alex Grey ~
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
~By Walter Gilbert ~
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
~By Oswald Mosley ~
If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.
~By Johnnie Cochran ~
Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.
~By Hugh Grant ~
When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
~By Edward Sapir ~
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
If you sense there must be more, there is more.
~By Alan Cohen ~
I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.
~By Peter Krause ~
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
~By Lionel Blue ~
The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
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 ~
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.
~By Michael Apted ~
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
~By Ernie Pyle ~
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
~By Madame de Stael ~
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
~By William Penn ~
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
~By James Reston ~
I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
~By Alan Shepard ~
I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
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 ~
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
~By Eminem ~
Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.
~By Jason Mraz ~
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 ~
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
~By Louis Aragon ~
When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'
~By Javier Bardem ~
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well.
~By Cliff Stearns ~
Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.
~By Dustin Hoffman ~
Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.
~By Conrad Burns ~
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 ~
If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
~By Sam Rayburn ~
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
~By Kim Campbell ~
I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
~By A. E. Housman ~
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
~By Edward Albee ~
I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
~By Matthew Vaughn ~
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.
~By Tom Verlaine ~
A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.
~By John Millington Synge ~
When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.
~By Herb Ritts ~
It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.
~By Gregory Hines ~
You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.
~By Jenifer Lewis ~
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.
~By James H. Breasted ~
Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.
~By Thomas Gray ~
When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.
~By Phil Keoghan ~
In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.
~By Billy Bragg ~
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
~By Paddy Ashdown ~
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
~By Thomas W. Higginson ~
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
~By Gene Tierney ~
I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
~By Jonathan Demme ~
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