(277 quotes found)
“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”
Dan Quayle
“A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“I'm extremely-extremely sensitive. I can cry at the drop of a hat. I'm such a girl when it comes to that. Anything upsets me. I cry all the time. I cry when I'm happy too.”
Mandy Moore
“Is it the secret of the long-nosed Etruscans?/ The long-nosed, sensitive footed, subtly-smiling Etruscans, / Who made so little noise outside the cypress groves?”
D.H. Lawrence
“Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.”
Iggy Pop
“One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.”
Barbara Hepworth
“It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything”
Morton Irving Seiden
“Latinos are very sensitive to different accents. I sort of lost my Mexican accent, and that's what they were looking for in this case — some sort of neutral accent that could be understood on both coasts and in different Hispanic communities: Puerto Ricans on the East Coast, Cubans in Fort Lauderdale and Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles.”
Jorge Ramos
“All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.”
Clive Bell