Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

In entertainment, zombies are so played out. I have a gut sense that people are getting tired of apocalyptic scenarios.

Jamais Cascio

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

Daniel Okrent

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

Diane Ravitch

My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

Dani Shapiro

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

Daniel Webster

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

Enrico Bombieri

My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.

E. L. Doctorow

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

Erik Erikson

If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

Ed Gillespie

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

Ed McMahon

That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.

Barbara Hershey

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

Bill Pullman

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

Brian Setzer

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

A. C. Benson

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

Graham Greene

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.

Gregory Hines

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

George Osborne

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

George Packer

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

George Santayana