#sensibility

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. ↗

— Jane Austen

#women #sorrow

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. ↗

— Witold Lutoslawski

#cannot #concentrate #destroyed #lifts #music

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#girly #grew #i #kind #prejudice

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#certain #course #critic #entire #entitled

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. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#become #consciousness #encounter #expand #experiences

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#exactly #know #other #our #people

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #love #marianne-dashwood #sense-and-sensibility #world

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#busy #deeds #feelings #good #good deeds

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#light #movement #sensibility #us #visual

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