Senses Quotes

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Elizabeth Bowen

Heart, May, Friends

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
Vera Farmiga

Humor, God, Gave

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
Alex Grey

Wisdom, Mind, Human

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

Humor, Family, Great

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
Walter Pater

Life, May, Seen

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
Florence Welch

Music, Everything, Turn

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

Country, Two, Leader

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Edwin Powell Hubble

Science, Him, Around

People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.
Dominic Monaghan

Fear, Hard, Different

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.
Jane Campion

Real, Become, Moon

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
Jane Campion

Music, Knowledge, Bad

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.
Brooke Burke

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.
Robert Lanza

Next, Turn, Longer

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

Work, Art, Artist

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.
Mervyn Peake

Great, Live, Through

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.
Jean Houston

Real, Creativity, Sense

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

Experience, Treat, Alive

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.
Ernst Mach

Experience, Him, Whole

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.
Michael K. Powell

Love, Change, Hate

If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.
Michelle Malkin

Control, Enough, Left

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

Beauty, Effort, Enjoyment

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
Vladimir Kramnik

Beauty, Situation, Rules

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.
Joseph Butler

Nature, Show, Both

Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.
Heston Blumenthal

Heart, Eyes, Eat

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.
Heston Blumenthal

Good, Food, Often

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.
Jane Siberry

Change, Music, Powerful

There is something complete about Stevie Wonder, and one senses that he is not only exceptionally important today, but will continue to be for as long as he chooses.
Jon Landau

Today, Important, Long

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
Robert Delaunay

Mind, Eye, Refined

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.
Rudolf Arnheim

Order, Instances

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
Rudolf Arnheim

Art, Boredom, Means

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Heraclitus

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us