Quotes of: Sense-of-humor Keyword

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

Flann O'Brien

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Frank O'Hara

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Your brain will eventually enjoy exercise for exercise sake, right; endorphins and endocannabinoids will create a sense of reward, but it doesn't know that at first.

Charles Duhigg

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

Carlisle Floyd

When you do a movie, you go to the location and get into your costume. It's part of your metamorphosis into your character, and it just made sense to do it.

Charles Fleischer

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

Craig Ferguson

They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

Carl Hiaasen

Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

Chris Hardwick

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Carl Jung

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Christopher Lasch

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Comte de Lautreamont

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

C.S. Lewis

The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.

Christian D. Larson

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

Catharine MacKinnon

I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.

Chirlane McCray

Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.

Chris Matthews

I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.

Christina Milian

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.

Colum McCann

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, you just enjoy it. No sense feeling guilty about it.

Cristina Moracho