#sensibility

He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#cause #certain #compelled #consequences #consider

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#completely #deep #folk #get #i

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. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#because #book #book writing #case #different

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#american literature #british #could #english #inappropriate

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

#behind #call #concept #exact #guess

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility. ↗

— William Thomas Green Morton

#called #i #i think #insensibility #should

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#deferred #judgment #men #often #own

You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#believe #big #blockbuster #does #extraordinary

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#danger #endure #measure #mental #perfect

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt ↗

— Jane Austen

#humour #sensibility #love