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The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. (Quote by - Margaret Sanger)

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me. (Quote by - Chuck Klosterman)

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. (Quote by - Frederick Law Olmsted)

I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated. (Quote by - Barbara Hershey)

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. (Quote by - Anna Jameson)

To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour. (Quote by - John G. D. Clark)

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction. (Quote by - Brian Ferneyhough)

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project. (Quote by - Douglas Wood)

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story. (Quote by - Pedro Almodovar)

No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show. (Quote by - Paul M. Glaser)

I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album. (Quote by - Catie Curtis)

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines. (Quote by - John Mellencamp)

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. (Quote by - Wallace Stevens)

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains. (Quote by - Walter Kaufmann)

Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to by brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. (Quote by - Bible)

I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good. (Quote by - Michael Hutchence)

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment. (Quote by - Leonard Maltin)

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. (Quote by - Fritz Todt)

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. (Quote by - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand)

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies. (Quote by - Samuel L. Jackson)

It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd Fast to the spot such root she took, And--like a sunflower by a brook, With face upturn'd--so still remain'd! (Quote by - Thomas Moore)

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. (Quote by - Karlheinz Stockhausen)

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)

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