Quotes of: Sense-of-humor Keyword

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

Envy

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Essays, First Series

She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.

The Face on the Milk Carton

Sometimes you just have to be there to understand, even if being there makes no sense at all." - excerpt from: freefalling

freefalling

...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....

A Familiar Rain

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

Gilead

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

How to Be Alone

All I know is I make sense to me- it's other people who seem complicated.

Harmonic Feedback

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

Human, All Too Human

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

Black Beast

Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.

British Bulldog

If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we`ve lost a lot.

Bumped to Berlin

For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.

The Bhagavad Gita

What character with any sense of aesthetics desires a cradle-to-grave account of himself? That’s so passé, so nineteenth-century.

Beginner's Luke

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can’t change what you feel inside.

Beautiful Malice

The Maddoxes could sense trouble. At least it seemed that way, because whenever there was a fight, they had either started it, or finished it. Usually both.

Beautiful Oblivion

A brick could be used to assuage your sense that life isn't real. Hold it in your hands and say, This is not a dream.


Brick

We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.

The Baron in the Trees