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Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself. (Quote by - Andy Garcia)

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)

Art is pattern informed by sensibility. (Quote by - Herbert Read)

He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways. (Quote by - Johannes P. Muller)

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)

Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally. (Quote by - Adam Schiff)

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo. (Quote by - Robert Burns)

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility. (Quote by - Nicolas Cage)

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. (Quote by - Tahar Ben Jelloun)

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. (Quote by - Remy de Gourmont)

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. (Quote by - Robert Delaunay)

I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)

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. (Quote by - Shawn Colvin)

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words. (Quote by - George Eliot)

I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't. (Quote by - Alex Winter)

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter. (Quote by - John Grierson)

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. (Quote by - Witold Lutoslawski)

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos. (Quote by - Charlie Hunter)

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability. (Quote by - Shinichi Suzuki)

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. (Quote by - Henry James)

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