Senses Quotes

See also Sense Quotes

I didn`t miss acting, because at the time I was very bitter about the business, needed to do something that I could feel passionate about, that would satisfy all my senses: my sight, my smell, my taste, my touch, my need to nurture, my love of colors. Of course, once I started doing that, and getting more and more passionate about it, I lost my desperation, and people in the business were more attracted to me.

- Jamie Luner

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

- Dane Cook

When everything becomes exploited-not for the information given but for the pure sake of advertising-then you think of these things in a very non-artistic way. But when the senses are let go, people become very creative. And the most creative thing people can do-non-artists I`ll say-is get in touch with their feelings through sex.

- John Leslie

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.

- Maria Callas

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

- Maria Callas

When it first started, I didn`t think that I would survive beyond the pilot. I did not unpack; I didn`t see the point. I thought the producers would come to their senses and realize they`d made a grave error in casting me. I was certain that I`d be on my way back to London...Eventually, it became clear to me that not only wasn`t I going to go away, the series wasn`t going to go away. I stayed, and have relished every moment. (On his initial belief that he would be fired from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)).

- Patrick Stewart

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

- Kim Novak

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

- Ann Druyan

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we`ll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

- Mario Cuomo

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

- Pau Casals

But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn`t declaim or explain, it presents.

- William Carlos Williams

(On making The Dreamers (2003)) It gave me the chance of visiting a moment that I really loved a lot, the late 1960s. It was a kind of magic moment in many senses. There was a fantastic projection of the future, of utopias, which were very noble in some ways. I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

I couldn`t tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I`d touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

- Maya Angelou

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world`s variety and uniqueness.

- Maya Angelou

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

- Claude Debussy

My sexuality is straight transvestite or male lesbian. It seems we are beyond the idea that I am gay and hiding it. If I had to describe how I feel in my head, I`d say I`m a complete boy plus half a girl. I don`t seem to have the sixth sense that women have or their stronger senses of taste and smell. Gay men can also have it but straight men don`t.

- Eddie Izzard

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

- Ariel Sharon

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

- Helen Keller

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

- Kim Novak

Touch is one of the most difficult senses to simulate on a computer. With our eyes it`s passive, with our ears it`s passive, with touch, it is two ways, both in and our of the computer, so you need something mechanical.

- Tom Anderson

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

- Louis Aragon

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason`s imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

- Louis Aragon

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

- Marcus Aurelius

Children use all of their senses in learning. They smell, touch, taste and see,

- Susan Blake

Luckily one of us came to our senses.

- Barbara Griffin

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

- Jasper Johns

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

- William Osler

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

- Aaron Mokoena

When you start using senses you`ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

- Al Joaquin

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren`t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

- Alaida Lares

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

- Alan Cropsey

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

- Alan Cropsey

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

- Alejandro Moreno

Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.

- Alejandro Moreno

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

- Alex Gruzen

Despair, night in the grieving senses.

- Alex Koppelman

I don`t believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person`s senses.

- Alex Tourk

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist`s world.

- Alexander Dumas

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

- Alexandra Jacobs

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

- Allan Ross

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.

- Allan Ross

The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.

- Allison Holiday

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

- Aly Byorick

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

- Alyaksandr Milinkevich

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

- Amani Abeid Karume

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

- Amy Wroblewski

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don`t depend on information coming in from the senses.

- Andrei Illarionov

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

- Andres Macias

One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.

- Andy Greene

If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It`s a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul. People smoke to celebrate a happy moment, or to hide a bitter regret. Whether you`re alone or with friends, it`s a joy for all the senses. What lovelier sight is there than that double row of white cigarettes, lined up like soldiers on parade and wrapped in silver paper? I love to touch the pack in my pocket, open it, savor the feel of the cigarette between my fingers, the paper on my lips, the taste of tobacco on my tongue. I love to watch the flame spurt up, love to watch it come closer and closer, filling me with its warmth.

- Ashley McFarland