Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.
The thing about Hitchcock which is quite extraordinary for a director of that time, he had a very strong sense of his own image and publicizing himself. Just a very strong sense of himself as the character of Hitchcock.
Scarlett: [to Ashley] Dreams, dreams always dreams with you, never common sense.
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.
Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something - a very intelligent creative power of some sort.
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.
One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
It's better to use science to apply science than to use common sense to apply a great idea.
