Quotes of: False-sense Keyword

My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

Dani Shapiro

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

Daniel Webster

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

Enrico Bombieri

My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.

E. L. Doctorow

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

Erik Erikson

If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

Ed Gillespie

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

Ed McMahon

That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.

Barbara Hershey

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

Bill Pullman

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

Brian Setzer

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

A. C. Benson

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

Graham Greene

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.

Gregory Hines

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

George Osborne

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

George Packer

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

George Santayana

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

Helen Dunmore

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

Jason Mraz

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

Jon Meacham

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

Joyce Carol Oates