Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

Laura Mvula

Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense - that futuristic space style. It was out there.

Mayer Hawthorne

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

Robert Wyatt

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

Stephan Jenkins

Anybody who has children and children who are well feels a sense of responsibility towards parents and kids and families that are struggling and that aren't well.

Annette Bening

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

True sense of humour and true, deep happiness never depend on the after effects of destructive vices

Angelica Hopes

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

Alice James

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

Alcaeus

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

Aldo Leopold

People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.

Ali MacGraw

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

Azar Nafisi

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Alexander Pope

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

Amanda Palmer

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

Alexei Sayle

I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.

Adrienne Shelly

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

Anuj Somany

The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right

Anuj Somany

Speaking calls for risk, speaking calls for a sense of what one has to lose. Not just what one has to gain.

Anne Deavere Smith

I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.

Amber Tamblyn

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

Abigail Washburn