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I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.
Sebastian Faulks / Novelist
Fleeting
Human Life
Lasts
Valuable
Waste
Criterion
Literary
Life Is A
Sensation
Poets
Waste Of Time
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
Edmund Hillary / Mountaineer
Building
Company
Comradeship
Effort
Feats
Giving
Intense
Peers
Pleasant
Greatest
Dangers
Still
Got
Sensation
Sharing
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Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Exist
Develop
Existing
Expressing
Interests
Sensation
Play Football
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I don't really think I feel pressured to become a teen sensation because that's not really my goal in life. It's not really about being star, being popular or having lots of girls. It's really about continuing to be able to act and have fun, and do what I like to do.
Chris Massoglia / Television Actor
Teen
Continuing
Pressured
Have Fun
Sensation
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A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look at the world around you; learn from the people in these pages, neither quite me nor quite you, how life is lived in so many different ways.'
Julia Glass / Novelist
Different Ways
Flying
Lifts
Pages
Life Good Experience
Life Experience Good
Neither
Sensation
So Many Different Ways
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John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.
Ethan Canin / Author
Miserable
Nasty
Gesture
Illuminates
Occasionally
Sensation
River
Similar
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For me I think the sport is as good as it is, I really personally miss the sound a lot of the old engines, the V8s, the V10s. That is personally my biggest regret or miss, what is lacking I think with the sensation of Formula 1, a lot of people associate also with that.
Nico Hulkenberg /
Engines
Lacking
Regret
Good Me People
Associate
Sensation
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The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.
Johannes P. Muller /
Causes
Peculiar
Attribute
External
Essential
Excite
Influences
Ordinarily
Sensation
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My sixth sense uses the other five senses to communicate. I may have a vision, hear a sound, get a smell, or have a physical sensation that corresponds with how someone passed. What I do revolves around noticing subtle differences in my mind and body - because they're messages.
Tyler Henry /
Communicate
Differences
Messages
Noticing
Sixth Sense
Smell
Subtle
Sixth
Sensation
Revolves
Uses
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It is the sensation of being tired but having a good feeling, you know, a sensation that you have done it honestly and given all your strength. And it is no matter that you feel like this, because this is what you have to do when you go into this sort of life. This is what I choose.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Good Feeling
Life Strength Good
Sensation
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As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.
Lynn Coady / Novelist
Experience
Bird
Couple
Lying
Middle
Night
Ominous
Tired
Wake Up
Across
Battles
Begun
Chest
Dead
Novelist
Sensation
Pick
Plucked
Syndrome
Tunnel
Wake
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I scored eight goals in 12 games against Spurs. I'm proud of this achievement because I know this rivalry is very important for the Arsenal fans - when you score eight times against Spurs you are an idol for them. And I know the Spurs fans hate me. I know this and it is a good sensation.
Robert Pires / Footballer
Achievement
Arsenal
Rivalry
Spurs
Good Hate Me
Sensation
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The music began, and it was one of those life-changing moments. I saw an artist, Janis Joplin. She was exhilarating. She was vibrating. And she was like no other artist that I had ever seen before... It struck me that hard. Maybe the word is epiphany, when you get that special sensation.
Clive Davis / Record Producer
Epiphany
Exhilarating
Life Changing
Music Me Hard
Sensation
Struck
Vibrating
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Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.
Lyall Watson / Author
Description
Fishes
Lines
Manage
Appear
Blurred
Best Time Way
Dominate
Overlap
Sensation
Seldom
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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.
Annie Dillard / Author
Blind
Book
Daring
Feels
Spinning
Stem
Worst
Wrestling
Writing
Alligator
Barrel
Turning
Sensation
Pilot
Rearing
Rolls
Route
Search
Stunt
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Sometimes it's even hard to tell the difference between a tic and a compulsion. But while tics stem from an urge in a specific part of the body - either completely unconsciously or through a premonitory sensation that's satisfied only by the tic - OCD bubbles up as conscious thoughts in the mind.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Bubbles
Compulsion
Conscious
Satisfied
Stem
Thoughts Mind Body
Sensation
Specific
Urge
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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Black
Blackness
Depth
Endless
Immortal
Infinity
Light
Overwhelming
Pure
Wide
Almost
Nowhere
Itself
Direction
Exists
Extension
Sensation
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I love the sensation of being out in the open air, far away from all the distractions of modern life. I will usually disappear for a couple of hours, and that time on my bike is quite sacred, as it's when I do all my serious thinking. Sometimes I will stop off at bikers' cafe and have a bacon sandwich.
Paul Hollywood /
Air
Bike
Couple
Disappear
Far Away
Hours
Modern
Modern Life
Sacred
Serious
Sometimes
Thinking
Life Love Time
Will
Being
Quite
Away
Bacon
Open
Out
Cafe
Distractions
Far
Off
Sensation
Stop
Sandwich
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The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn't have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.
Tavi Gevinson / Writer
Fleeting
Sensation
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I don't want to use the word 'instinct,' but when something good happens - something big or good in my life - I have this sensation that it was inevitable. Anything careerwise, 'Lord of the Rings,' 'Rudy,' or getting married. Which is weird, because you don't ever want to be ungrateful for what you have.
Sean Astin / Film Actor
Getting Married
Happens
Inevitable
Instinct
Lord
Married
Rings
Ungrateful
Weird
Life Good My Life
Getting
Word
Lord Of The Rings
Sensation
Something Good
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There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama.
Rod Carew / Baseball Coach
Kids
Barefoot
Cheer
Driving
Feet
Fun
Hitting
Panama
Quiet
Remember
Skinny
Special
Tennis
Also
Ball
Cheers
Crowd
Double
Getting
Street
How Much
Line
Sensation
Rises
Wood
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Being offended is, in itself, an unpleasant sensation, just like pain in your mouth is an unpleasant sensation, but if you have the right amount with the right amount of food, it actually makes the food taste good. So if you have just the right combination, people will laugh despite feeling like it's wrong.
Dan Mintz /
Combination
Offended
Mouth
Sensation
Unpleasant
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When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.
Johnny Weir / Figure Skater
Amazing
Audience
Cheer
Elements
Emotion
Footwork
Most Amazing
Program
Sportsman
Standing
Way
Cheering
Coming
Direction
Element
Short
Entire
Jump
Sensation
Screaming
Spin
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A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery.
Ellen Forney / Cartoonist
Electrical
Manic
Melting
Metallic
Spinning
Taste
Battery
Burst
Current
Lick
Mouth
Sensation
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When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.
Graham Moore / Screenwriter
Film
Language
Lilies
Misunderstanding
Water
Talk
Works
Check
Experiencing
Fact
Look
Fundamentally
Sensation
Piece
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'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.
Peter Ackroyd / Biographer
Chapters
Description
Gallery
Labyrinth
Silence
Thematic
Chronological
Sensation
Smells
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The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren't properly alert.
David Byrne / Musician
Activity
Adrenaline
Awake
Exhilarating
Gliding
Subconscious
Too Much
Wind
Alert
Face
Automatic
Bubble
Sensation
Physical
Properly
Seem
Thoughts
Themselves
Wakes
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I enjoy putting myself in situations where you are nervous, but you need to enjoy yourself also. I've done skydiving, bungee jumping. I quite like those sensations - when you feel a little bit nervous and you don't really know where you are going. It's a quite good sensation that I love. I like the speed; I like everything.
Stan Wawrinka / Tennis Player
Jumping
Little Bit
Nervous
Skydiving
Speed
Love Good Myself
Sensation
Putting
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Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything - yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Benign
Infancy
Poetic
Primal
Assimilate
Babies
Established
Blissfully
Held
No Words
Sensation
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Acting is a way to escape who you are for a short period of time. It doesn't happen all the time , but every now and then, the sensation of being 'other' is very profound. You get this moment where you are no longer yourself. You lose consciousness of the crew or the audience... it's a thrilling moment. And even quite spiritual.
James Purefoy / Actor
Consciousness
Crew
Now And Then
Profound
Thrilling
Time Moment Yourself
Time Moment Lose
Escape
Sensation
Short Period
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I think it's a false distinction to say that conversation and composition are separate. Because even as we speak, I'm seeing. Every interview is different, and I'm finding new ways to talk about ancient preoccupations. And I sometimes come on something that's immensely helpful and valuable. Plus I like the sensation of conversation.
Allan Gurganus / Novelist
Ancient
Composition
Conversation
Distinction
New Ways
Plus
Valuable
False
Immensely
Interview
Sensation
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Yes. I get scared sometimes if I don't know when a physical sensation is going to go away. For example, if I get a chest pain it's grandpa trying to say 'heart attack' and I verbalize 'grandpa had a heart attack' and the pain goes away. But there's sometimes that I'll verbalize and the pain is till there, and then it doesn't go away.
Tyler Henry /
Grandpa
Chest
Go Away
Till
Sensation
There And Then
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
L'wren Scott / Fashion Designer
Creating
Fragrance
Fun
Layers
Notes
Scent
Smell
Symphony
Thinking
Unique
Love Thinking Always
Sensation
Reaction
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We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'
Edgar Wright / Film Director
Being There
Hometown
Remove
Shooting
Starbucks
Mcdonald
Sensation
Same Thing
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Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.
John Lahr / Critic
Beckett
Continents
Debut
Father
Florida
Grove
Landscape
Miami
Two
Vain
Waiting
Time Waiting Wait
Arrival
Mr
Coconut
Wait
Sensation
Pass
Samuel
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