If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.
I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor.
But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.
We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.
Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.
I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.
Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.
I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.
Charlotte Palmer: Oh, if only this rain would stop! Mr. Palmer: If only you would stop.
Elinor Dashwood: Did he tell you that he loved you? Marianne: Yes. No. Never absolutely. It was everyday implied but never declared.
Elinor Dashwood: [as her mother and sisters rant about Willoughby's many qualities] Is he human?
Mrs Jennings: An entertainment, I declare. I cannot remember when's the last we had a songbird in the house.
Fanny: My only real concern is how long it will take them to move out.
