#sensation

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual! ↗

— George Herman

#adult #concept #emotion #first #handling

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#diary #i #never #read #sensational

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#beside #class #contemplation #ideas #locke

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life. ↗

— Rick Allen

#chasing #focus #had #life #main

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#else #embodies #enhanced #form #meaning

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#anywhere #could #go #near #people

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world. ↗

— Ruth Hubbard

#cannot #categorize #evolve #our #place

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#catastrophe #catastrophes #domain #embodied #emergence

It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#own #part #sensational #series #takes

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#alive #breeze #crisp #drunk #drunken