Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

Helen Dunmore

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

Jason Mraz

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

Joyce Carol Oates

If there really is a definable 6th sense, it would be the natural connection and the ability of communication between man and animal

Justin Southwick

People know who I am. I have less ability to be intimidated, in a sense, than others coming up.

Jon Voight

Our humanity consists in our ability to sense and respect and respond to the humanity of others.

C. Terry Warner

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

David Blunkett

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

Derek Bailey

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

Daniel Kahneman

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Doug Larson

The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set.

David Morrissey

I grew up as a fanboy and a giant nerd, and I mean that in the most loving sense. I loved playing 'Dungeons and Dragons.'

Derek Mears

The feelings is both the biggest poison and the greatest remedy. The wisdom and good sense define the best use.

Da Anunciação Marco

Success is a way of life with the sense of connection, compassion, and expansion of human life.

Debasish Mridha

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

Jonathan Evison

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

James Fenton

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

John Fiske

I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.

Jonathan Ive

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Richard Russo

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

Bruce Greenwood

I feel like it does get busier professionally, but personally, I think I choose how I spend my time more carefully, so it balances it out in that sense.

Danielle Panabaker