All Quotes

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.
‐‐ Steve Carell

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.
‐‐ David Crystal

Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter in Florida, and in 2008, NASA beamed a Beatles song to the North Star (Polaris), on the assumption that any putative Polarians would appreciate the Fab Four's 1960s-genre compositions.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
‐‐ Bennie Thompson

Sending our youth to war is wrong.
‐‐ Michael Berryman

Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.
‐‐ Kip Thorne

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
‐‐ Arabella Weir

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
‐‐ Frederic William Farrar

'Senior Citizen' and 'Silver Surfer' are the new euphemisms. Unless you're a female presenter on TV, in which case you're ready for the knacker's yard at 35.
‐‐ Terry Wogan

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.
‐‐ Jeffrey Sachs

Seniors vote, and that is why we have, you know, Medicare since the 1960s for seniors, and we didn't have a national healthcare program for children, even though it's a lot more cost-effective to deal with children than with seniors.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

'Senna' took five years, 'Amy' took three years. You try and say, 'Look, there's no deadline.' That's important. Just saying, 'We've got to make the film. And once the film's ready, it will be out there.'
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.
‐‐ Johannes P. Muller

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
‐‐ Tiger Woods

Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
‐‐ Zac Goldsmith

Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.
‐‐ David Chalmers

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
‐‐ Ralph Cudworth

Sense of humor. A girl who doesn't take themselves too seriously. And someone who is spontaneous. They're the three things for me that really attract me to a girl.
‐‐ Christopher Egan

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.
‐‐ Jean Pigozzi

Sense of smell, of course, is only one of those dog qualities that can't be replicated or improved upon. I've been researching dogs in warfare for my book about 'Rin Tin Tin,' and I've read many accounts of their heroics: carrying messages through battle, alerting troops to enemy planes, and even parachuting behind enemy lines.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.
‐‐ Jack Kornfield

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.
‐‐ Susan Estrich

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
‐‐ Grover Cleveland

Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.
‐‐ Carole King

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
‐‐ Irving Penn

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.
‐‐ George Pierce Baker

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 Nestell Bovee

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
‐‐ Ang Lee

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.
‐‐ Hermann Ebbinghaus

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
‐‐ Marquis de Sade

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
‐‐ Shakira

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
‐‐ Franz Kafka

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
‐‐ Ann Landers

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
‐‐ Jose Bergamin

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
‐‐ Lewis Carroll

Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.
‐‐ Max Lucado

Sentences are not as such either true or false.
‐‐ J. L. Austin

Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
‐‐ Karen Thompson Walker

Sentiment is wherever you go.
‐‐ Mitch Albom

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
‐‐ Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality is a false sense of self.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
‐‐ Leonora Carrington

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.
‐‐ Doris Lessing