Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

Sometimes I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment but it’s never after accomplishing something.

Person

Familiarity, globalisation, cheap travel, mere weariness had diluted our sense of foreign-ness.

Us

Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.

The Wise Man's Fear

there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

sometimes it's hard to know what to do.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

Chris Lowe

I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.

Eli Roth

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know how to make the best use of the Internet.

Pico Iyer

The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about.

Tom Metzger

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

Clockwork Angel

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

Nathan Myhrvold

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

Norman MacCaig

It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.

Prince Andrew

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

Paul Bettany

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

Paul Bloom

We talk to our partners in Silicon Valley every week, so we have a real sense of what goes on.

Peter Barris

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

Patricia Cornwell

I hold a dramatic and romantic concept of life; What doesn't touch my senses means nothing to me

Pablo Neruda

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Pablo Picasso

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

Rory Bremner