“We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not OK to take drugs? Blah, blah, blah. What's a crime? What's criminality? What can you do, what can't you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn't really make sense.” KnowsRealStatesUnitedUnited StatesCrimeDrinkDrugConfusionMake SenseConfusingContradictoryBlahCriminality Author:Jerry Garcia
“People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.” PeopleWorldMindToolsMake SenseUncertainty Author:Michael Lewis
“Some people have described Daoism as pantheist, and although there's something in me that resists this designation, I can see that Daoism is consistent with pantheism. If there is any way in which pantheism makes sense and is not redundant, then it is the way (or 'the Way') presented in Daoism.” PeopleIfsWayI CanMake SenseConsistentPantheismRedundantDesignation Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I find that what doubt does, or fear, is it makes you come up with as many ideas as you possibly can. And on film that works 'cause you're then handing over that fear to the director, who has to make sense of all those options!” DoeIdeasFilmCausesDoubtDirectorsCome UpMake SenseHanding Over Author:Eddie Redmayne
“We cannot build county councils based on one single constituency. It doesn't make sense because it does not have a sufficient revenue base to be able to provide the services that county councils are required to provide.” DoeAbleMake SenseSufficientRevenueCouncilCounty Author:Raila Odinga
“You need to look to make a cohesive calendar that makes sense and helps elongate the careers of your players as opposed to shorten them inadvertently.” NeedsLooksHelpingCareersPlayerMake SenseCalendars Author:Jim Courier
“I wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times about the amazing effect of shared wonder - how I have an audience filled with people who you'd think would hate each other, people from every religious category, all at the same show at the same time. And it's an amazing phenomenon to watch this shared sense of wonder, where these people who really don't like each other - for good and bad reasons, reasons that make sense and that don't make sense - are in the same room, experiencing this unification.” PeopleThinkingReasonShowsHateReligiousRoomsWonderWatchesAudiencePiecesEffectsNew YorkFilledMake SensePhenomenonCategoriesGood And BadNew York TimesSense Of WonderUnification Author:David Copperfield
“Nowadays blues in particular has a wide, wide, wide, wide net of everything that's called blues. I think if somebody's coming to it in the last ten years or whatever, or even fifteen years, what their experience is what is called blues is different from mine. I have to expand my range of what's been called the blues. I think somebody who's new to it would have to go back and to see what is called blues now, where it came from. If that makes sense.” IfsThinkingYearsDifferentLastsMinesParticularTenWideMake SenseRangeFifteenFifteen Years Author:Joe Louis Walker
“Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?” DoeCharacterInterestOptimisticMake SensePessimisticDisinterested Author:John Hurt
“The only thing I heard Speaker [Paul] Ryan say that made sense was, we actually really need to look at this and see what makes sense and what doesn`t, because electronic detection in those kind of - and drones and other types of border protecting devices seem to be much more effective in certain places.” NeedsLooksKindMadeSeemsCertainHeardTypeMake SenseBordersDevicesSpeakersDronesDetection Author:John Yarmuth
“I want to see more young filmmakers, and specifically filmmakers who have a unique voice. I wouldn't mind seeing less of the attempt to force-feed people what others think they want, if that makes sense - whatever the formula is that some people seem to operate under, like needing a certain star, or needing a certain thing in order to get a piece made.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantMindMadeSeemsYoungCertainOrderForceStarsVoicePiecesSeeingUniqueMake SenseFilmmakerFormulasUnique Voices Author:Andre Holland
“I'm giving my fans the songs that they want to hear from me. Why do we love to hear ourselves being downgraded. Why do we love to hear the negative situations that we see in our lives daily? I'm not trying to make sense of it, I'm not giving any solutions, I'm just tossing the question.” WantGivingTryingSongSituationOur LivesFansSolutionsNegativeMake SenseDaily Life Author:David Banner
“I find myself trying to translate a lot of the things whirring passed my subjective lens into language I can make sense of, then that tribal tongue becomes rap-language and for whatever reason some people on the internet really like that. To y'all I'm eternally indebted.” PeopleTryingI CanReasonLanguageInternetRapTongueMake SenseTranslateLensesSubjectiveIndebted Author:Milo
“I love making my Instagram look cohesive - look like a Tumblr page almost. When they all make sense colorwise, or when you add those white borders to them, it makes them look cleaner. Clean and precise.” LooksWhitePagesAddCleanMake SenseBordersPreciseInstagramCleanersLove Making Author:Ariana Grande
“There are some dark days when I do receive some racist mail or emails. But overall the response to me has been very positive. Readers relate to me not just as an African-American, but as an American trying to make sense of her personal finance, just like them.” TryingHas BeensDarkReaderResponseFinanceAfrican AmericanRelateMake SenseRacistMailEmailVery PositivePersonal FinanceDark Days Author:Michelle Singletary
“Matthew is the only gospel that uses the Sermon on the Mount, for example, because that's the new Moses making a new interpretation of the law on a new mountain. So then you begin to put all these things together, and I don't know how you can make sense out of that book if you don't know the Jewish background.” IfsKnowsBookUseTogetherLawKnow HowExampleMountainBackgroundsMake SenseInterpretationSermonsMosesMatthewSermon On The Mount Author:John Shelby Spong
“All actors have to believe that our characters have a point that makes sense. Hopefully, they make sense to the crowd watching it, but at least he has to make sense in his own mind, in his own universe.” MindBelieveCharacterUniverseActorsCrowdsHopefullyMake Sense Author:Mads Mikkelsen
“I think the days are over where we were okay with bad guys just doing the pirate laugh and eating kids just for fun. There has to be a goal, you know? They have to have a point, and they have to make sense.” ThinkingKnowsKidsGuyFunGoalLaughingEatingOkayMake SenseBad GuysPirateJust For Fun Author:Mads Mikkelsen
“If there's no connection between the tactic and the result you're trying to achieve, and if in the process you can damage other people who are in fact innocent in the whole situation, I think you ought to re-examine whether what you're doing makes sense.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingWholeFactsProcessResultsSituationAchieveOughtConnectionsInnocentMake SenseDamageTactics Author:Allard K. Lowenstein
“There is a connection between environment and stress on both ends, with excessive clutter and excessive attention to detail both holding the power to distract us from our ability to love fully, work productively and relax effectively. So, what makes sense to me is for each of us to think this through on a few fronts: what constitutes a comfortable environment for us, how much effort we're willing to put into it relative to other priorities, and how well-matched we need our partners' preferences to be to ours.” ThinkingNeedsWellsEndsAbilityEffortAttentionEnvironmentFrontsWillingComfortableConnectionsStressDetailsPartnersPrioritiesMake SenseRelaxRelativePreferenceClutterMatchedAttention To DetailAbility To Love Author:Carolyn Hax
“I do believe in high, high intensity. I don't believe that there's anytime while I'm on the floor that I should be sitting down catching my breath; that doesn't make sense. There's plenty of time to rest when I'm done.” ShouldBelieveDoneSittingBreathsDon't BelievePlentyMake SenseIntensityCatchingSitting Down Author:Kai Greene
“People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beef steak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets. Does that make sense?” PeopleHeartDoeStuffHalfTroubleCostThousandFortuneKillingCancerMake SenseDozenSoupBeefSteakLentils Author:George Harrison
“Barack Obama today is directing every federal agency to make sure we evaluate candidates on the level without regard to their employment history. So if you are a rotten employee, if you don't show up on time, if you don't get any work done, that cannot be examined as whether or not it makes sense to hire you. What we're gonna do is make sure that we only hire people who have been out of work the longest, because that's fair, regardless their work history, regardless whether they're qualified, this is Obama making it equal.” PeopleIfsHas BeensDoneShowsTodayLevelsEqualFairsRegardEmploymentBarackMake SenseAgencyCandidatesEmployeeQualifiedRottenEvaluateWork Done Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.” IfsWayCertainAbsolutesMake SenseRelativeBack And Forth Author:George Saunders
“I think it's not an easy task because there's not enough Latino writers that are being given opportunities to write things - and I say this because I've been given a lot of bilingual movies in the past because of my career in Mexico, and they're like, "Oh, it's going to make sense for her to do this." A lot of studios want to hit that demographic, but they sort of do it without starting in the right way, which is having someone who knows the culture, and enjoys the language as well, to be able to write these things.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantWritingWellsEnoughAblePastCultureOpportunityLanguageGivenEasyEnjoyCareersTasksStartingStudiosMake SenseMexicoRight WayLatinoDemographicsEasy TasksGiven Opportunity Author:Karla Souza
“I tell [scriptwriters] I think [their scripts] has too many stereotypes, that even the way they come in and out of Spanish doesn't really make sense, it feels forced.” ThinkingWayFeelsScriptsMake SenseStereotype Author:Karla Souza
“There are estimates that we daily walked for 10 - 20 kilometers for hundreds of thousands of years. The world's best problem solving machinery grew up under conditions of consistent, strenuous physical activity. It makes sense that when we don't recreate the environments in which the organ was forged, we get a loss of function. And that when we do restore those environments, we get that function back. The effects of aerobic exercise on executive function skills is a powerful empirical example of this idea.” WorldYearsIdeasProblemLossPowerfulEnvironmentConditionsEffectsExampleGrewExerciseActivitySkillsGrew UpFunctionMake SenseConsistentExecutivesOrgansProblem SolvingMachineryForgedPhysical Activity Author:John Medina
“I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where I've been. It's a weird thing, having to give an account of yourself, to try to make sense of yourself for yourself. I'm not that old, but I have been writing fiction professionally for a long time now. I started so young and went so hard for so long. And I guess it was about feeling I had the space to look over my shoulder.” GivingWritingTryingLooksLongHas BeensHardFeelingsYoungSpaceFictionLong TimeAccountsShouldersWho I AmMake SenseLooking BackWeird ThingsWriting Fiction Author:Tim Winton
“I think we all have a certain number of "coming of age" songs, and then a writer has to expand and grow into more varied and specific themes. And the music industry is, like Jawbreaker says, "selling kids to other kids," so it makes sense that those early songs in a writer's life are often the ones that catch people's ears, and later work is more difficult and less immediate.” PeopleThinkingKidsAgeCertainSongGrowsDifficultNumbersIndustryEarsSellingMake SenseThemeComing Of AgeMusic Industry Author:John K. Samson
“Boxing is a business and if it makes sense, other than my brother (Anthony), damn right I'll fight him.” IfsFightingBrotherMake SenseDamnMy BrotherBoxing Author:Lamont Peterson
“I always thought it was due to liberals are about the collective whereas conservatives are more about individual liberty and responsibility. So it kind of makes sense that liberals are more prone to rally around each other no matter what. It's kind of a hive mind-set.” MindKindMatterIndividualResponsibilityLibertyNo Matter WhatDuesMake SenseCollectivesMind SetIndividual LibertyHives Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's a good reason for the media hating me. And once I came to grips with that fact, that there's a reason they should hate me, then it makes sense. One of the toughest things I had to do was learn to psychologically accept the fact that being hated was a sign of success.” ShouldReasonFactsHateAcceptingMediaMake SenseHatedHate MeBeing Hated Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Everything has to be done for a reason, and everything has to be done to make sense in terms of running a proper business today, and it's not just about the food.” ReasonDoneRunningTodayTermMake Sense Author:Gordon Ramsay
“Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.” WayHumansMake SenseConfusingHuman ExperienceInaccessible Author:Tavares Strachan
“If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on that subject, you're going to end up with a much more regressive public-policy environment than if you approach it in a quieter way. It's not because the public is stupid, it's just that people with only a cursory interest in something are going to have a knee-jerk reaction to it. That's impossible to explain in a cable-news media... it doesn't make sense.” PeopleIfsWayEndsInterestIssuesEnvironmentImpossibleConditionsSubjectsMediaStupidPolicyApproachNewsReactionsMake SenseKneesPrisonerInvitesMainstreamCablesJerkPublic PolicyMainstream MediaNews MediaCable NewsKnee Jerk Reactions Author:Rachel Maddow
“All our stories are part invention - the way we've decided to make sense of what has happened.” WayStoriesHappenedDecidedInventionMake Sense Author:Melissa Febos
“I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together. I'm working on a book and working, and just jam it in whenever it makes sense.” NeedsWritingBookDifferentTogetherBedTablesMake SenseJamDifferent TimesGet It Together Author:Lena Dunham
“It'll be taught in homes that it's not okay to make fun of a kid because he's gay or it's not okay to make fun of a girl cause she's fat. But that we have been living for so long in a culture where so many people's parents supported those beliefs that there wasn't any infrastructure for children understanding right and wrong in those situations, if that makes sense.” PeopleIfsChildrenLongHas BeensHomeKidsCultureGirlBeliefFunCausesParentUnderstandingSituationTaughtGayOkayFatsMake SenseInfrastructureNot Okay Author:Lena Dunham
“There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most dramatic language loss is in Europe.” LanguageGivenLossAttentionAmountEuropeMake SenseDramaticIndigenous Author:Noam Chomsky
“I focus on the task and try and do it as best we can. And we're constantly evolving it, because it's my way of trying to make sense of all these ambivalent feelings I have.” WayTryingFeelingsFocusTasksMy WayEvolveMake SenseAmbivalentAmbivalent Feelings Author:Jon Stewart
“You see somebody like me, as young as I was at the time, driving around the inner city of Newark, and to them [police] it doesn't make sense. I've been illegally searched [and had] my car illegally searched. [I've] been handcuffed for no reason. You get in enough of those situations.” ReasonEnoughYoungCitiesSituationCarPoliceDrivingLike MeMake SenseNo ReasonInner CityNewark Author:Michael B. Jordan
“With respect to teaching, I couldn't make sense of mainstream economics when I had to teach it to college students. At the same time, I could see at the school that there was a whole lot of hypocrisy. Not much real respect for the "higher learning."” RealWholeSchoolTeachTeachingStudentsCollegeHigherEconomicsMake SenseHypocrisyMainstreamCollege StudentsHigher Learning Author:Michael Yates
“If you think quotas mean the best person not getting the job, you have to believe that the best person always gets the job at the moment. Do you really believe there are more than three times more men named John qualified to lead FTSE 100 companies in the UK than all the women put together? All the 32 MILLION women combined? Just statistically, that doesn't make sense.” IfsThinkingMenBelieveMeanPersonsMomentsTogetherJobsThreeCompanyMillionsMake SenseThree TimesQualifiedQuotaBest Person Author:Laura Bates
“It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.” PeopleKnowsWayGovernmentEnvironmentParticularBlockMake Sense Author:Rachel Maddow
“I am as sex-positive as the next perverted bisexual liberal, but I don't think sex-positivity should be solely the domain of any political party or that it means policing others' sexuality or judging it. There's no "better than" or "less than," if that makes sense.” IfsThinkingShouldMeanPoliticalNextSexPartyJudgingPositivitySexualityMake SensePolitical PartiesDomainBisexual Author:Rachel Kramer Bussel
“I think it was Samuel Johnson who said, "There are two kinds of information in this world: that what you know and that what you know where to get." The tools help the latter, and that's what keeps us from going nuts. The sense of overload comes from the gap between that sudden jump in volume (of information) and the tools we have to make sense of it.” ThinkingKnowsWorldKindSaidTwoHelpingInformationThis WorldToolsMake SenseLatterGapsNutsVolumeJohnsonOverload Author:Paul Saffo
“I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the delighted exercise of my rather malicious sense of humor - especially vis-a-vis the horrifying everyday environment we have produced for ourselves. These mall-scapes, burb-scapes, urban wildernesses, starchitect stunts, and other toxic contexts for our daily lives express about every human vice, stupidity, and blunder that it is possible for a society to make. It all leads, really, to a psychological place where only comedy or despair make sense.” HumansEnvironmentComedyExerciseDespairBehaviorElementsEverydayVicesDenyStupidityPsychologicalReformMake SenseWildernessDaily LifeSense Of HumorToxicUrbanHuman BehaviorAttemptingDelightedMallsBlundersMaliciousScapes Author:James Howard Kunstler
“When you have answers, when everything has a reason, when it makes sense to an analytical person, you're going to be more successful. You're going to be more comfortable.” PersonsReasonAnswersSuccessfulComfortableMake Sense Author:Trent Dilfer
“Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems. A major country like the United States has to have a broadly-conceived program for effective international action, influence and cooperation with others.” CountryHardStatesProblemActionUnitedUnited StatesInfluenceCircumstancesMajorsSolutionsProgramUniversalInternationalMake SenseCooperation Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“I think fundamentally, the question of whether or not Christianity makes sense - whether it withstands scrutiny, whether the evidence supports it or hurts it - always comes down to the Resurrection.” ThinkingHurtChristianitySupportEvidenceMake SenseResurrectionScrutiny Author:Lee Strobel