Quotes of: Sensible-person Keyword

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Remy de Gourmont

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.

Frank Gaffney

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Val Kilmer

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

Gemma Chan

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

Cullen Hightower

Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

Charles Kennedy

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

Jonathan Miller

In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.

Jacques Santer

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

James Wolcott

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

Dana Carvey

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

John Lithgow

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.

Fritz Todt

Fanny: People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Sense and Sensibility

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

Murray Walker

When I was younger, I did not have the strength to jump well enough, but over the years I have gained that, worked on it. But the sensibility you simply have to have.

Simon Ammann

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

Charlie Hunter

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

Carol Gilligan

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

William James

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

Alan Cumming

How to explain the sheer tingling joy one experiences when two interesting, complex, and occasionally aggravating characters have at last settled their misunderstandings and will live happily ever after, no matter what travails life might throw in th...

The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World