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I think homes are a palpable form of investment, and I understand them. -- Sean Pertwee
Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes. -- Steve Coogan
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. -- Agnes Repplier
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. -- John Stuart Mill
For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character. -- Juno Temple
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable. -- William Shatner
The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience. -- Andy Goldsworthy
Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it. -- Mika Brzezinski
Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time. -- Robert Dallek
In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around. -- David Cross
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. -- Charles Baudelaire
Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives. -- Melinda Gates
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My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds are, the power of the site... I take that baggage with me. -- Antoine Predock
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work. -- Nikola Tesla
The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question. -- William Banting
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically. -- Lysander Spooner
London 'Harry Potter' premieres are very special events: There is this sense of love and ownership and pride, and it's just palpable. It's a very different feel from an L.A. premiere. It's nice to be a part of something that's so positive. -- Michael Goldenberg
I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time. -- Matthew Rhys
It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in. -- Christopher Hitchens
I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck. -- Ingrid Newkirk
The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way. -- Carrie Mae Weems
Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a film opportunity came up, but it's a unique place, and you can reach saturation point. For me it was a place where creative desire and ambition meets desperation. It's in the air; it's palpable - I just didn't want to be around that. -- Darren Boyd
I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares. -- Andre Balazs
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. -- Archibald MacLeish
Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness. -- George Sand
The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets. -- Hoyt W. Fuller
I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable. -- Sue Monk Kidd
The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots. -- H. L. Mencken
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles. -- James Madison
The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable. -- Werner Herzog
The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker. -- Beeban Kidron
The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part. -- Abbe Smith
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. -- George Orwell
No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts. -- H. L. Mencken
In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat. -- John Ashbery
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative. -- Barbara Kruger
In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. -- Sigmund Freud
One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread. -- Anton Yelchin
Things are always terriblefor some people. The questionis the ratio of the palpable hurtto the general sessionof life in an era. -- Maureen N. McLane
This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security. -- Jean Baudrillard
The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me -- Stasia Ward Kehoe
Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable. -- C. JoyBell C.
But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive. -- Mary Oliver
Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if youve truly lived through it. -- Mika Brzezinski
The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me. -- Raquel Cepeda
Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now. -- Gregg Easterbrook
I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world. -- Barack Obama
...the worst aspect of our time is prejudice... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself. -- Rod Serling
I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope. -- Elayne Boosler
I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner. -- Kara Walker
And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent, but very palpable reaction from abroad. -- Oswald Spengler
When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit. -- Maria Konnikova
Sound-- That stealeth ever on the ear of him Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim, And sees the darkness coming as a cloud-- Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud? -- Edgar Allan Poe
I think that in the colonial imaginary of the average Mexican, in how it drives us, the economic dependence on the US, and in some cases cultural dependence, is quite palpable, very strong. -- Bocafloja
Strong evidence suggests that we are dealing with a phenomenon that is being caused by palpable, solid objects whose characteristics are not of human design, and whose behavior is suggestive of intelligent control. -- Peter Davenport
Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others. -- Robert Emmet
If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen. -- Alan Greenspan
One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open. -- Dave Eggers

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