Quotes of: Business-sense Keyword

I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.

Cathy Guisewite

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.

Jemima Kirke

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

F. L. Lucas

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

Otto Dix

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Across the Great Barrier

You've got no sense of humor." "I'm going to laugh really hard after I kick your ass.

Imitation in Death

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

Infinity

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

Sex and the City

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

The Sense of an Ending

Only those who leave home ever really find it.

The Stuff of a Lifetime: Self, Sense, Soul, and Spirit in Human Experience

This [...] isn`t something I actually saw, but what you end up remembering isn`t always the same as what you witnessed.

The Sense of an Ending

...I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty.

The Sense of an Ending

You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.

The Sense of an Ending

Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna." ["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]

Satires, Book I

people without sense of humor aren't much fun to be around, no matter how far they've gotten.

Mortal Friends

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.

Looking Forward

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he’ll have a moment’s peace.

A Sense of the Ridiculous

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Das ist eine der anstrengenderen Seiten von Moritz, die er mit dem Alter entwickelt hat - die Mischung aus Perfidie und Sentimentalität.

Smilla's Sense of Snow