Good Sensibility Quotes

#1. I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were given the option, wouldn't choose to rip off a filmmaker or an artist - I don't think its part of the Australian psyche.

John Polson

#2. When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

Simone Weil

#3. Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I'm a good organiser.

Mark Wahlberg

#4. A pretty girl will always have the toughest time learning to play golf, because every man wants to give her lessons.

Harvey Penick

#5. Every thing he did was right. Every thing he said was clever. If their evenings at the park included cards, he cheated himself and all the rest of the party to get her a good hand.

Jane Austen

#6. For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

David Hume

#7. I have to have the sensibility to keep Versace company in good shape because there are so many people working for it, and we need to have the company grow and also be relevant. So I work very hard for all that to happen, and I wish people would know me for that and be satisfied.

Nicki Minaj

#8. She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her
she was only an Object of Contempt

Jane Austen

#9. Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

Charles Caleb Colton

#10. I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.

Shawn Colvin

#11. Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.

Fatih Akin

#12. And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.

Robert Plant

#13. He'd taken a lot of females in his life, females who played at sex like a contact sport, but Tayla ... she rocked his underworld.

Larissa Ione

#14. Human beings have freedom toward death and the right to death, in the sense of sacrifice, but only when the good sought through sacrifice, and not the destruction of one's own life, is the reason for risking one's life.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#15. The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

Mason Cooley

#16. I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good.

Michael Hutchence

#17. What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

Robert Stone

#18. What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining governments and so bad at building them. There's nothing harder to organize than a group of poets.

Sam Hamill

#19. The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

Saint Francis De Sales

#20. To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#21. This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought.

Roger Ebert

#22. Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Josh McDowell

#23. Maybe it's a good idea," said Kathy.

"Why is that?"

"Well - you have a British sensibility."

"What does that mean?"

"I just mean people over there might like it." She gestured in the direction of England.

Charlie Close

#24. The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.

George Howe Colt

#25. I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.

Vaclav Havel

#26. That one doesn't count. The poor scoundrel is deaf, but he makes a fine sniffer. How do you think we found you?

H.S. Crow

#27. I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility.

Michael Lehmann

#28. Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.

Kathryn Bigelow

#29. The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.

Jean Louis

#30. The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

Flannery O'Connor

#31. I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.

Frida Kahlo

#32. Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?

Charles Stross

#33. I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.

Ken Osmond

#34. Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.

Pablo Picasso

#35. If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

David Lehman