Quotes of: Sensible-person Keyword

I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.

Raf Simons

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of...

Ivanka Trump

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon a...

Elon Musk

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

Your dreams are closer than you think.

The Miraculous Millionaire: A Sensible Approach To Financial Freedom

We try to make sensible decisions with the facts in front of us. The problem with sensible decisions is that so is everyone else.

Paul Arden

We'll just sit here," said Barney, "and if we think of anything worth while saying we'll say it. Otherwise, not. Don't imagine you're bound to talk to me." "John Foster says," quoted Valancy, "'If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour...

L.M. Montgomery

Nothing looks more like a sensible man as a fool who holds his tongue.

German

To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well...

Northanger Abbey

But it seems to me inevitable that any person who gives thoughtful and imaginative attention to literature must be awakened in his sensibilities, enlarged in his sympathies, sharpened in his critical faculties.

What Shall We Defend?: Essays And Addresses

My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive f...

Rufus Wainwright

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

James Belushi

I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children.

Cat's Eye

Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them.

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame.

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We’re lucky to be living now.

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Christian Nestell Bovee

A 'real' person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaque, offers a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift.

Swann's Way

I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on e...

Catie Curtis