For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

For some reason, comedy just comes easily to me, and I feel like I can do it. I don’t have any doubt. When I work on drama, there’s always a sense of ‘Did I find...

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

I’ve always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

Whether politicians are dealing with complex policy problems or trying to communicate with the electorate, it makes sense to establish a clear, long term narrative underpinned by forward-looking policies to deliver on its vision.

Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made...

I don’t have a very quick sense of humor.

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

I don’t get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or...

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense,...

If you want sense, you’ll have to make it yourself.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

Sense is the only divine quality of man.

You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot...

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

Our ascendancy of the past two centuries – first Europe and then the U.S. – has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but...

We’ve already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn’t make sense any other way.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it’s not common sense yet.

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that...

One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that’s why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing...

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or...

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don’t tend to take themselves too seriously.

In a sense it’s a lot crazier when you’re on the road and it’s a lot less stable, but it’s actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to...

The darker the film, the more vital everyone’s sense of humor is on set.

I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn’t work in a studio, I didn’t light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to...

I can’t honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life...

Never trust a man who cannot laugh at himself.

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever...

Words have to make sense; facts don’t. That life makes no sense is the most beautiful fact of all.

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they’re good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn’t: Go stick your head in the mud.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks...

I hang out with the ‘nerdy’ people – they have a different sense of humor than most kids.

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

Sense isn’t democratic. A senseless opinion that’s advocated by ‘the majority’ is still senseless.

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment – this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there’s a tradition, but there’s also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that’s well blended into...

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

I’m not a jukebox; I don’t play exactly what the crowd wants to hear – that doesn’t make sense. But, I do look at people requests. At the end of the day, they are the...

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.