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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense. -- Bernie Mac
Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. -- Douglas Coupland
The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them. -- Christian Marclay
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. -- Nadine Gordimer
Creating a representation of yourself for the Internet stopped making sense when we were all on phones and connected everywhere. -- Evan Spiegel
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world. -- John Thomas Sladek
Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click. -- Tony Visconti
Writing is making sense of life. -- Nadine Gordimer
Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently. -- Paul Smith
A sensible speaker is a slave to making sense. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience ... -- Susanne Katherina Langer
Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself. -- Roni Askey-Doran
The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change. -- Jennifer Sodini
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you. -- John Sheridan
You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see... -- Ken Kesey
In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it. -- Justin Adams
I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information. -- Hilary Mantel
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it. -- David Christian
People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless. -- Michael Lewis
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. -- Rollo May
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world. -- Andrea Arnold
History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed. -- Stephenie Meyer
Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts. -- Susan Meissner
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world. -- John Thomas Sladek
The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things. -- Eugene Kennedy
You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller. -- Kathryn Davis
If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos. -- Archibald MacLeish
Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God. -- Gerhard Richter
This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal. -- R. A. Salvatore
I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it. -- Alexander McCall Smith
One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds. -- Jimenez Lai
A Healing Dream can never be completely "interpreted," or fully understood. Healing Dreams want us to stop making sense; not just to crack the case, but to enter the mystery. -- Marc Ian Barasch
Discovering the threads that constitute actual interactions is an essential means of making sense of the world. But perception of overall patterns of things that are contextually related is equally important. -- Richard J. Borden
There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense. -- Paul Muldoon
Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences - so-called Big Data. But making sense of it all and turning it into actionable policy has been elusive. -- Ryan Holmes
The only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so friend-intimate with as text. -- Erin McKeown
I'm not trying to project any persona. Often people don't know where to put me. I don't fit comfortably under banners, and that's fine. I'm not worried about not making sense to people. That's probably my best asset. -- Riz Ahmed
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives. -- Frank Kermode
There are easier ways of making sense,the connoisseurship of gesture, for example.You hold a girl's face in your hands like a vase.You lift a gun from the glove compartmentand toss it out the window into the desert heat. -- Billy Collins
I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it. -- Nicholas Royle
When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am. -- Amy Tan
Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life. -- Bruce L. Shelley
As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine. -- Melina Marchetta
I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy. -- Gladys Taber
The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world. -- Natasha Trethewey
Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question. -- Craig Venter
We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a herd of bodies/until one becomes home./Moments sweep past. The grass bends/then learns again to stand. -- Tracy K. Smith
Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn't making sense. Especially at a private school, you miss two days, and you get so behind. -- Stacie Orrico
I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind. But his hands keep pulling me back: into the alley, and Portland, and a world that has suddenly stopped making sense. -- Lauren Oliver
Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human. -- Peter Thiel
The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents. -- Michio Kaku
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. -- Christopher Hitchens
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
Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on making sense of their illusions and delusions. What then would the truth have to be, such that such human beings are FIT TO KNOW IT at all, even provisionally or tentatively? -- Kenny Smith
A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making sense of the incredible variety of sounds that have sprung up in the wake of the Internet revolution. There's a lot of room for unique, qualified voices who can provide good reads. -- Michael Azerrad
On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field are nicely in order, that things are finally looking clear and making sense, and all is well. But come back again on another Tuesday, and the roof may have just fallen in on his life's work. -- Lewis Thomas
It's what all actors try to do, really, to just preserve the child inside them because their imagination is quite available. I think partly it's because they're still making sense of the world. They haven't boxed everything up so neatly as most adults have. And the thing is adults haven't solved the world - they've just found a coping mechanism. -- Bertie Carvel
The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student of human nature, to pay attention to his experience, to understand the nature of experience itself. By delving into raw experience and distilling it into a work of art, the writer is engaging in the heart and soul of philosophy - making sense out of life. -- Georg Buhler
The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine. -- Florence Welch
I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. -- John Oates
There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better. -- Ashton Kutcher
I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. -- Moby
There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made. -- Frank Knight
The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music. -- James Vincent McMorrow
I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films. -- Jonathan Demme
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. -- Howard Nemerov
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art. -- Carlo Ponti
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. -- Andy Rooney
It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman. -- Saffron Burrows
I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it. -- Neil Gaiman
Stop me when I'm making too much sense. -- John Fairclough
Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible. -- Joseph C Zinker
I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense. -- Harmony Korine
There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making. -- Rand Paul
Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind. -- David Levithan
Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result. -- Ned Herrmann
Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly. -- Marshall McLuhan
I have a sixth sense, but not the other five. If I wasn't making money, they'd put me away. -- Red Skelton
There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake. -- Tilda Swinton
The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense? -- David Mitchell
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture. -- Robert Henri
The Who had a great sense of humor. And they were also very serious when it came down to making music. -- Jason Reece
Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon. -- Robert Kiyosaki
To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense. -- Timothy Keller
Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense. -- Stephen Kinzer
Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget. -- Charles Duhigg
Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them. -- Eugenie Scott
Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on. -- William Saroyan
Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it. -- Don Hertzfeldt
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. -- Christopher Lasch
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense. -- Siri Hustvedt
Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them. -- Daniel Gilbert
Until people can relate to you and attach a sense of significance and importance to your life, your life is not making an impact. -- Gladys Adevey
Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste. -- Rachel Kushner
I do realize that I have a talent for making music. It wasn't anything expected, but I do think it's deserved, if that makes sense. -- Cakes da killa
I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine. -- Rainn Wilson
The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise. -- Richard A. Epstein
I try to approach making movies in a way that it's about the making of them and not the result of them, if that makes sense. -- Dax Shepard
Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying. -- Nell Irvin Painter
These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it needs to make sense. -- Sonia Braga
In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen. -- G-Eazy
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The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others. -- Ben Sollee
If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters. -- William Feather
Making a woman laugh. What is that about? And the prettier the woman, the more satisfaction I get. It doesn't make any sense, but I'm being honest. -- Larry David
Vaclav Havel had this great sense of humor. And you kind of felt that he was making a little bit fun of everything at the same time. -- Judy Woodruff
I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it. -- Mac DeMarco
The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence. -- Malcolm Gladwell
They are definitely pros and cons to triple threat matches. The cons to them is obviously coming up wth something very original and making sure everything makes sense. -- Adam Cole
I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park. -- Cecily McMillan
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. -- William J. Clinton
It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled. -- James Russell Lowell
I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me. -- Elizabeth Banks
When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better. -- Don DeLillo
Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. -- David Hockney
the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness. -- Jean Baudrillard

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