#sensation

Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational. ↗

— Norma Shearer

#got #i #i always #myself #other

If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian. ↗

— Ryan Stiles

#could #i #if i could #just #rap

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chilly #conjure #could #feelings #had

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#atmospheric #convey #i #long-term #might

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#attribute #causes #different #essential #excite

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study] ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#death #meteors #natural-phenomena #news #sensations

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#air #air time #everyone #got #like

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#analysis #defy #issues #mental #movement

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ↗

— Josh Billings

#feeling #feeling good #laughter #over #place

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#ceased #consciousness #disappearance #disappeared #every