Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.

Whispers Under Ground

[There] was a time when a lot of people came to the door. The milkman. The iceman. The Fuller Brush man. Encyclopedia salesmen. There was a sense of interaction with the world that started right at your own front doorstep.

Walter's Purple Heart

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life

Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.

The Woman Who Died a Lot

It doesn't seem to make any sense, but then it never does! It's usually only afterwards when the pieces finally fit together, that you're left standing there thinking how obvious it always was.

Wisdoms of the Light

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

White Noise

It was only at her prayers that she felt able to think calmly and clearly either of Prince Andrey or Anatole, with a sense that her feelings for them were as nothing compared with her feel of worship and awe of God.

War and Peace

What is even more important than developing intuition is cultivating the sense of adventure and discovery in life.

Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.

The Woman in White

In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

I had a dream about you.” “Oh, what’s that?” “It’s a stream of senses and thoughts that happen during sleep. But that’s not important right now.” 

We Had A #Dream About You

sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone are the dead rattling the walls that close us in.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

Zen in the Art of Writing

I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don't like opening m...

Alex Turner

Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial m...

Natasha Trethewey

In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get you...

Annie Lennox

Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search ...

Clive Thompson