Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Leonard Cohen

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

Lyall Watson

I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.

Richard Flanagan

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Sally Field

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

Sylvester Stallone

For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.

Viggo Mortensen

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

David Hume

Narrator: I am Jack's inflamed sense of rejection.

Fight Club

Louie: Nothing seems to make sense anymore.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Slim: A guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella.

Of Mice and Men

Cole Sear: Stop looking at me. I don't like people looking at me like that.

The Sixth Sense

Fanny: People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Sense and Sensibility

Tallahassee: Here's the deal: I'm not easy to get along with, and I'm sensing you're a bit of a bitch.

Zombieland

Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

Calvin Klein

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

Johann Georg Hamann

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

Paul Wellstone

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

Wilbur Smith

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Edward Dowden

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Story Musgrave