Quotes of: Sense-of-humor Keyword

Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.

M: Writings '67-'72

Eyes can't sense a smell of rain before it drops. Mind can't see event of future before it happens.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

Mockingjay

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

Speak, Memory

Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?

Stealing the Preacher

...the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

Sense and Sensibility

Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.

Sense and Sensibility

Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

Sex is a different medium, refracting time and sense, a biological hyperspace as remote from conscious existence as dreams, or as water is from air

Saturday

Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening?

The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness

Give me your wrists, Alayna. I sense your impatience, and I know exactly where you intend for those hands to go.

One Plea

I shrieked like a little girl, which, if you think about it, makes total sense.

Once Upon a Time Travel

Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven’t felt this way in forever.

Perfect Chemistry

There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order.

Parallelism Of Cyclicality

It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.

Platform

You are addressed by the way you dress. Your attire reflects your sense of value or taste and of course, your speech either makes or mars you.

The Prince and the Pauper

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

Pattern Recognition

don't even leap to actions and decisions before you've found that sense of natural calm, well-being, or enthusiasm.

Parallel Universe of Self

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

Perdido Street Station

I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.

The Rum Diary