Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

Of course truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Mark Twain

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.

Minoru Yamasaki

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

Natalie Dormer

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

Laura Linney

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

William Kingdon Clifford

A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.

Marco Rubio

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Madame de Stael

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Mark Twain

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

David Sarnoff

To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.

John Rhys-Davies

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

Meg Rosoff

I'd like to be a cross between Bruce Parry and Keith Floyd. Someone with a sense of adventure who truly loves food.

Arthur Potts Dawson

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

Ben Shapiro

'Billy Elliot' prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time.

Eric Fellner

I've got two older sisters who I'm very close to. And my son's grown up with a big sense of family around him.

Lesley Manville

Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.

Randy West

I've had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.

Isabel dos Santos

There's something cool about traveling when you're young. There's a sense of camaraderie. You learn more about yourself.

Cobie Smulders

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

John Cheever

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

Anita Hill