Sensibility Quotes

Before you get to 'SNL,' you have your own sensibility. And when you get to 'SNL,' it's the show's sensibility.

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

Not everything that exists today is reasonable; but this does not mean that everything that does not exist is sensible.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party.

Be sensible, that is, cease to be honest.

We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.

Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.

Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.