Quotes about Sensory
To be in any form, what is that? (round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither,) If nothing lay more develop'd the quahung in it's callous shell were enough. Mine is no callous shell. I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop, they seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me. I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and I am happy, to touch my person to someone else's is about as much as I can stand.
- Walt Whitman
The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air. A grasshopper began to chirp by the wall, and like a blue thread a long, thin dragonfly floated past on its brown gauze wings. Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, and wondered what was coming.
- Oscar Wilde
Better to take pleasure in a rose than to put its root under a microscope.
- Oscar Wilde
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- William Faulkner
Caddy smelled like trees in the rain.
- William Faulkner
I like to feel blonde all over.
- Marilyn Monroe
We'd lie on the floor, turn the lights out, put two speakers on either side of our ears, and try to blow our minds with music. I know that I want to make a record that does that yet a record that, if it was played on the radio at twelve in the afternoon, the guy making the wall - the guy cleaning the motorway - he's got a melody to hang on.
- Richard Ashcroft
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer — its dust and lowering skies.
- Toni Morrison
A carnal Christian makes his or her decisions based entirely on what can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, or heard.
- Tony Evans
Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.
- Jack Kerouac
Oh, smell the people! yelled Dean with his face out the window, sniffing. Ah, God! Life!
- Jack Kerouac
It's a vicious circle, people are going deaf because music is played louder and louder. But because they're going deaf it has to be played louder still.
- Milan Kundera