Top 582 Sensibility Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

I believe rhythmic sensibility is always a product and extension of language, defined broadly, among other things. But it is an immediate product and extension - no time elapses between the exposure to language and the creation of rhythmic sensibility.

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

I'm a child of the woods. I have that sort of sensibility.

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

Before you get to 'SNL,' you have your own sensibility. And when you get to 'SNL,' it's the show's sensibility.

Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that it affects their works. Of course, artists need sensibility; sensibility towards their environment and their community, but when they are stirred enough by their experiences in their society they can create their art in small studios.

I suppose what I can say is that I do feel I have a natural spiritual sensibility.

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.

New York is all about sort of a corporate sensibility, and it is squeezed out room for any other kind of sensibility, money talks, bullshit walks, I guess.

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

I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

For me, sensibility is the location of talent. Sensibility comes first because only with the right kind of sensibility is talent useful. I've met many people who are extraordinarily talented but have no capacity to go outside of themselves or their field. I love those people, but they would not succeed in our culture.

I do what I feel I know how to do and don't do things that I don't. I'm a product of my sensibility.

We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.

I would say that what we called the Pixar sensibility goes back even further. It is kind of a CalArts sensibility because so many of the people who are creative instrumental people at Pixar came from that school.

I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good

We can try to gain some of the sensibility of some of the indigenous populations of the world or our predecessors 800 years ago. We can laugh at them as being naive and unsophisticated, but unless we can gain that sensibility that there has to be rights of nature as Bolivians and others put it, then we're going to be destroyed.

By the late '50s, something was happening in England, and it got to be quite exciting. The music world then started to explode with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. It was an incredible time with this mixture of independence in art, fashion, and the explosion of the pop sensibility. London was certainly at the center of it all for a few years. And as far as art is concerned, I think that sensibility of what was later called Pop art started in England even before America. And so I was lucky to be there.

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

Sensibility is the power of woman.

I do not consciously reclaim. I am not those "some readers" and so I think it would be impossible for me to see my work that way, as reclaiming a preserve. I write in a way that is aimed at all levels - conscious and unconscious - at pleasing the kind of reader I am. Some of the authors I read are male, some are female, and some are even in between. And speaking of in between, maybe now is as good a moment as any to point out that there might be no "feminine" or "masculine" literary sensibility, or sensibility generally.

I like that New York sensibility where you can be edgy, but still super-glamorous.

For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party.

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

The sensibility I brought to directing was similar to what I bring when I write.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

When I was a kid in the '50s, I was very enamored of beatniks and... a kind of dark sensibility.

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.

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

It's beneficial to have that younger sensibility available to you during the writing process.

Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.

perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that at a certain point one has enough, that you can derive as much pleasure from a Picasso hanging in a museum as from one that's hanging in your den, that you can get an awfully good meal in a restaurant for less than twenty dollars, and that once your drapes cost more than the average American's yearly salary, then you can afford to pay a bit more in taxes.

I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good.

I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up. I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in the positive ways - if there was no slavery and the abolition of slavery, there would be no jazz.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

If you are dealing with life from a low-level sensibility, the Internet can be a tool for manifesting that. But if you're dealing with life from the highest sensibility, it can also be your tool for manifesting that. The simple reason is that it doesn't cost money.

Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is.