Make Sense Quotes - Page 18

• Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Trying, Bits

  "Only You Can Save Mankind". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point in the process that it becomes acceptable to pass them on. When a song wants to be written, it will be written. When it does come, I will very rarely go back and edit lyrics. I'm quite a rational human being, and the only part of my life that I can't rationalise, or can't make sense of, is how a song gets written or why.

  Laura Marling

  Song, Writing, Doe

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• I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

  Ted Allen

  Wine, White, Cake

  "Ted Allen / 'Queer Eye' for a wine guy". Interview with W. Blake Gray, www.sfgate.com. October 27, 2006.

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• It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.

  Jane Wagner

  Doe, Affair, Boring

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• The universe does not make sense without God.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Doe, Without God, Universe

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• Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.

  Anthony Burgess

  Memories, Soul, Sainthood

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Self, Creating

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• I understand the chairman of the Senate Ethics comittee is going to examine the check-bouncing scandal with a microscope. ...makes sense... If you're going to look at ethics in Congress, a microscope is what you need.

  Jay Leno

  Needs, Looks, Politics

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• Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

  Walker Percy

  War, Politics, Hell

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• I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

  Richard Ford

  Heart, Stories, Theory

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• It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Discipline, People, Perspective

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• It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Common Sense, Common, Without God

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• If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build, and that has never been America's true God.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Powerful, Humble, America

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• I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

  Andrea Arnold

  Writing, Thinking, World

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• Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Jobs, Decision, Way

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• A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making sense of the incredible variety of sounds that have sprung up in the wake of the Internet revolution. There's a lot of room for unique, qualified voices who can provide good reads.

  Michael Azerrad

  Unique, Sprung Up, Voice

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• Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

  Jon Ronson

  Adventure, Trying, Littles

  RINF News Interview, rinf.com. April 3, 2005.

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• I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.

  Hayley Atwell

  Thinking, Guy, Vices

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• I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.

  Carl Barks

  Book, Plot, Stories

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• When I'm acting, I've always got to make it make sense to me why I do anything. Whether it's right or wrong, I've just got to believe this is the reason why I am doing this and just go with it.

  Henry Ian Cusick

  Believe, Acting, Reason Why

  "Talking 'Lost' with Henry Ian Cusick". Interview with Jen Chaney, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 28, 2010.

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• Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Math, Long, Laughing

  "Jennifer Carpenter: I’m ready for Deb to learn Dexter’s secret". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 15, 2011.

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• The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.

  Patrick Carney

  Ideas, Netflix, Enough

  "The Black Keys' Half-Dozen Biggest Beefs" by Chris Payne, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 27, 2014.

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• Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

  Barbara Corcoran

  Two, Break Even, Long

  "Will you save in the long run? Refinancing 101" by, www.today.com. March 17, 2010.

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• I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

  Benjamin Carson

  Speak

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• My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Husband, Military, Perspective

  "Q&A – Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. November 2010.

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