It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call ‘something there,’ more deep and more general than any of the special and particular ‘senses’ by which the...
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.
Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.
I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.
Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.
In fact, unconscious scanning goes on all the time. It seems more than ever that what we know as the visionary or poetic mode is our response via the unconscious senses to what is really there in the environment. We are not trying to 'explain it away...
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Finding a way to find humor in things that are hardcore is definitely something that, I think, the sitcom does best.
I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.
Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.
Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.
And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
