Sensitive Quotes

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. (Dan Quayle)
I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time. View quote
Elvis Costello
If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy. View quote
Elliott Smith
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. View quote
Alan Watts
I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
It is. . . axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction. View quote
W. H. Auden
I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive. View quote
Ryan Reynolds
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture-in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. View quote
Earl Warren
Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons. (Alan Watts)
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. View quote
Alan Watts
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. View quote
Jim Morrison
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. View quote
Anne Brontë
The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. View quote
Max Beerbohm
A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, And closed them beneath the kisses of night. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. View quote
Peter Zumthor
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. View quote
Charles Cooley
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. View quote
Emily Post
The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive. (Geraldine Ferraro)
On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut. View quote
Marvin Olasky
Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image. View quote
Rollo May
An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult. View quote
Frederick Rolfe
Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you - slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion - pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come. View quote
George F. Kennan