132 Sensibility Quotes for You to Enjoy

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility. Guy Davenport

Mind Reading Another Real Precisely Suspend Sensibility Use Workings Imaginative

Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility. Hamza Yusuf

Commitment People Sense Too Our Some Generally Fair Wade Passions Up American Decent Sensibility Far Us Sea Swept

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong. Hayden Christensen

Inside Iran, people are actually quite well-educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people, by and large, know the American sensibility quite well, and the reverse is not true. Hooman Majd

Government People Inside About True Know Particularly Well Well-Educated Understand Reverse Iran America American Quite Sensibility Large Actually Things

I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility. James Cameron

Me People System Hierarchy Tried Like Because Get Blue-Collar Established Sensibility Personally Hollywood Sucked Filmmaker

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility. James Wolcott

Stars Tabloid Never-Ending Source Curiosity Sensibility

I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write. Jamila Woods

Poet Lyrics Write Like Brain Sensibility Bringing

Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demographics could laugh at. Jeff Dunham

People Church Those Laugh Find Could Most Learned Cub Demographics Doing Up Scout Sensibility Clubs Ages Shows Growing Growing Up

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true. Jill Abramson

Women True Idea Journalists Taste Different Stories Sensibility Bring

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely. Joanna Newsom

Folk Get Sensibility Rooted Deep Away

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility. Jodie Foster

Director Most Sensibility Really Actor

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter. John Grierson

Training World Matter Will Corporate Worst Purely Only Fact Cultivation Lines Very Personal May Where In Fact Sensibility Cooperative

If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is. John Lasseter

Character You Writing Walk Seen Big Building Everyone Would Spirited Main Main Character Know Look Audiences Up Very Flag Sensibility Japan Japanese Away Set

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. John Podhoretz

Intelligence Critical Kind Gingrich Restless Tragically Any Sensibility Newt Newt Gingrich

I am huge fan of Australian comedy. 'Strictly Ballroom' is one of my favorite movies. Definitely the British Commonwealth's sensibility is where I draw a lot of my influences. Jonathan Krisel

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Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. Jonathan Miller

Fault Sign Outward Errors Very Taste Often Sensibility Deep

There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal. Kate Braverman

Work Writing Out Bizarre Angeles About Shallow Area Outside Idea New Industry Vulgar Geography Los Los Angeles Exists Banal Trained York Any Done New York Being Establishment Movie Screens Movie Industry Sensibility Being Done Prejudice Publishing

Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs. Kelly Wearstler

Sometimes Amazing Clothes Other Insane Architect Colour Go His Artist Sensibility Created Product Who Her Designer Designs

Music and the blues, they have taught me a lot. I think in this book, 'Book Of Hours,' there is this blues sensibility. There are moments of humor even in the sorrow, and I'm really interested in the way that the blues have that tragic-comic view of life - what Langston Hughes called 'laughing to keep from crying.' Kevin Young

I attended a middling high school in central Virginia in the mid-'90s, so there were no lofty electives to stoke my artistic sensibility - no A.P. art history or African-American studies or language courses in Mandarin or Portuguese. I lived for English, for reading. Kim Brooks

Art History School Language Reading Virginia High Lofty High School Studies Attended Courses Were Art History Stoke Artistic African-American Sensibility Central English Lived Portuguese

Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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