Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

Gasoline Attendant: You and me got sense. Them Okies got no sense and no feeling. They ain't human. Human being wouldn't live the way they do. Human being couldn't stand to be so miserable.

The Grapes of Wrath

Anakin Skywalker: I sense Count Dooku. Obi-Wan Kenobi: I sense a trap. Anakin Skywalker: Next move? Obi-Wan Kenobi: [smiling] Spring the trap.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways...

Tony Kushner

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is...

Peter Bogdanovich

Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to have a slightly twisted sense of humor. Without humor, horror just isn’t as good.

Alistair Cross

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

Kevin J. Anderson

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

Wilma Rudolph

Whether it's writing a monologue or writing standup or writing a screenplay or writing a play, I think staying involved in the creation of your own work empowers you in a way, even if you don't ever do it. It gives you a sense of ownership and a sens...

Denis O'Hare

A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adul...

The Sense of Wonder

One of the most important things I have found is that no one school of thought has all of the answers. Sometimes history plugs a gap that science can't fill. Often philosophy has answers that science relies on for its discoveries. Theology needs the ...

From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand

We sow the seed. We watch the plant grow. We take care of it. And when it become a tree, we kill it to make our furniture. And still the plant doesn’t know we exists or why we killed it because it doesn’t have senses like us to feel, see and hear...

Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

WE say then- that the Cause of all, which is above all, is neither without being, nor without life----nor with- out reason, nor without mind, nor is a body----nor has shape----nor form----nor quality, or quantity, or bulk----nor is in a place----nor ...

Love

Ouch! I feel bitch slapped-- Matt Carter

Common Descent

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

Peter R. Grant

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

Robert Fripp

Stop trying to explore what is different about yourselves and explore the commonality you have instead.

Réné Gaudette

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.

Robyn Hitchcock

I like fragrances that have some sweetness to them. All three I have developed have that as a common element.

Shakira

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

St. Vincent

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

T.K. Naliaka