In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid. – Wilhelm Ostwald
It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet. – Tony Snow
To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition. – Scott Stossel
The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream – or a nightmare. – Victor LaValle
I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff. – T. J. Miller
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it’s a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh. – Shirley Henderson
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. – Thomas W. Higginson
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. – Trevor Nunn
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. – Tim O’Reilly
Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed. – Terry Eagleton
Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath. – Tim O’Brien
I’ve learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. – Thom Mayne
I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you. – Tre Cool
I think it is quite remarkable actually that Pope Benedict has a sense of the variety of ways in which it is possible to be a Catholic. I think he is more comfortable with a plurality of expressions of Catholicism in different rites, traditions than many of us are. – Vincent Nichols
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer. – Terry Southern