If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.
Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.
Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and... he had a sense of humor that comes out of advers...
A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.
People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.
I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.
I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.
A lot of people say, 'Hey, God doesn't have a sense of humor.' Yes, He does. God has a great sense of humor.
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.
I've got a great sense of humor.
In fact, unconscious scanning goes on all the time. It seems more than ever that what we know as the visionary or poetic mode is our response via the unconscious senses to what is really there in the environment. We are not trying to 'explain it away...
