An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness ... a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; ...
When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But th...
How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world dimi...
Over the years, I have noticed that the child who learns quickly is adventurous. She's ready to run risks. She approaches life with arms outspread. She wants to take it all in. She still has the desire of the very young child to make sense out of thi...
Mac MacGuff: And this, of course, is Juno. Mark Loring: Like the city in Alaska? Juno MacGuff: No. Mark Loring: No? Hon, shall we sit down and get to know one another? Vanessa Loring: Oh, I thought I would get some drinks. What would anyone like? I h...
No, it is not my sense of the immorality of the Humbert Humbert-Lolita relationship that is strong; it is Humbert's sense. He cares, I do not. I do not give a damn for public morals, in America or elsewhere. And, anyway, cases of men in their forties...
The Search for reason ends at the known; on the immense expanse beyond it only the sense of the ineffable can glide. It alone knows the route to that which is remote from experience and understanding. Neither of them is amphibious: reason cannot go b...
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.
… Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle…
Nothing makes logical sense in this industry.
I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.
My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.
What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
I've always believed in having a sense of balance and stealth.
