Make Sense Quotes - Page 28

• In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Shining, Faces, Consciousness

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.

  Bill Burr

  School, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

  Martin Walser

  Atheist, Rhythm, Explanation

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.

  Darius McCrary

  Real, Character, Play

  "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Meaningful, Reading, Writing

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.

  James Arthur

  Language, Polyglots, Knows

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Firsts, Comedy, Financial

  "Jim Gaffigan Talks to Brian Regan About Hating Being Called a 'Clean' Comedian, Resisting Hollywood, and Playing Big Venues". Interview with Jim Gaffigan, www.vulture.com. September 23, 2015.

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• Some of the events in the Olympics don't make sense to me. I don't understand the connection to any reality... Like in the Winter Olympics they have that biathlon that combines cross-country skiing with shooting a gun. How many alpine snipers are into this? Ski, shoot a gun... ski, bang, bang, bang... It's like combining swimming and strangling a guy. Why don't we have that? That makes absolutely as much sense to me. Just put people in the pool at the end of each lane for the swimmers.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Country, Winter

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• I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

  Nick Earls

  Real, People, Attention

  Source: www.stephbowe.com

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• When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a goblin, it doesn't mean anything to me. So my definition of fantasy is very broad, it's anything to do with memory, or dreams, or ways of interpreting or making sense of the world.

  Dave McKean

  Dream, Memories, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Born, Disposition

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about an erotics of place, it is that same impulse - to try to make sense of the world, to try to preserve something that is beautiful, to ask the tough questions, the push the boundaries of what is acceptable.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Writing, Southern Utah

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

  William Bolcom

  Retrospect, Process, Composing

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• Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.

  Aziz Ansari

  Character, Trying, Stories

  "Aziz Ansari and Dilshad Vadsaria On Set Interview 30 Minutes or Less". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 10, 2011.

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• I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any subject - there's something about it that doesn't make sense. I wanted to work my way through what happened slowly, and look at everything in the order in which it took place.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Thinking, Order

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't...not anymore...consider fame and fortune my career. I'm not a star. I'm an actor. So in a way, what I want to do as an actor, I would consider good for my career. Does that make sense?

  Christoph Waltz

  Stars, Careers, Perspective

  Source: collider.com

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• Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.

  Neal Shusterman

  Earth, Flesh, Natural

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• Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.

  Thomas Moore

  Crazy, Issues, Problem

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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• All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

  Richard Powers

  Brain, Different, World

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• You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.

  Jim Thompson

  Book, Reading, Ideas

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

  Allen Klein

  Thinking, Attention, Want

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• History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot.

  Paul Murray

  Different, Stories, Way

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• Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.

  James Robertson

  Blessing, Past, Desire

  James Robertson (2010). “And the Land Lay Still”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

  Thomas Lynch

  Effort, Language, Situation

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• Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

  John Madden

  Football, Passion, Years

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