The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes...

We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children.” “But they make no sense!”...

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they...

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, it’s silly.

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

When the person you love has cancer, they are, in a sense, living on Planet Cancer. They are in a place where you are not. And you can’t follow them.

Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: ‘This is part of who I am, but...

There’s a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

Slayer fans are unforgiving. Early on in the career, if something changes, it’s accepted. But 30 years down the road, in my opinion, they would rather see us do a three-piece than even try to...

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p....

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.

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...

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’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.

The Best Thoughts are often those which are spoken without giving any thoughts.

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It’s because you feel it; you see it in someone’s body language.

In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there’s a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone’s asleep, they go erasing the past. It’s like a bad Ray Bradbury story...

My Dublin wasn’t the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

When I was young, I was 13 going on 31. Then when I was 30 going on 31, I was 30 going on 29. Now I’m in love and I’ve lost all sense of time—and...

Hard-work is more about mental sensibility and less about physical intensity

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

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.