#sensibility

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#control #desperation #freedom #love #lover

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#built #business #female #gaze #hitchcock

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#gay #humour #i #i love #icons

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

#because #being #celebrity #constantly #great

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

#going #good #good writing #i #i think

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#away #beyond #bounds #carried #deeply

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility. ↗

— James Wolcott

#never-ending #sensibility #source #stars #tabloid

She thought she was a sensible girl. But some kind of love had taken hold of her and refused to let her go, and it wasn't a happy, easy, joyful thing, it had her in a vice-like grip. ↗

— Harriet Evans

#sensibility #love

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. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#adult #any #choruses #hook #i

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #destroy #humane #irresistibly