AtomicQuote

P.D. James Quote

Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense.

P.D. James

Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense.

Tags: common sense

Related Quotes

Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.

Tags: abandoned, availability, available, commodities, commodity, common, common sense, discernment, fool, foolish

Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.

Amit Kalantri

Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.

Tags: acquire, acquiring, alike, amit kalantri, as good as, clever, common knowledge, common sense, commonsense, comparable

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

Tags: be good, be kind, charity, common sense, do good, enlightenment, goodness, guru, help, helping others

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

Tags: africa, africans, amorous, apartheid, attraction, black people, color, common sense, face, falling in love

Self-Empowerment is free to anyone who chooses to use it. It comes from within and nowhere else. You cannot buy it, borrow it, steal it or sell it. It is always available to you and never wears out. T...

Gary Hopkins

Self-Empowerment is free to anyone who chooses to use it. It comes from within and nowhere else. You cannot buy it, borrow it, steal it or sell it. It is always available to you and never wears out. T...

Tags: awareness, balanced, common sense, energy medicine, inner guidance, inner self, inner strength, self awareness, self belief, self empowerment

A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respec...

Issac Asimov

A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respec...

Tags: brave, common sense, crazy, creativity, inspirational, weirdo, assurance, crackpots, eccentricity, eccentrics

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

Tags: brain, brainstorming, clever, cleverness, common sense, conception, deep, education, elite, emotion

What could she do, bound as she was by the tyranny of silence? She dared not explain the girl to herself...that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its o...

Radclyffe Hall

What could she do, bound as she was by the tyranny of silence? She dared not explain the girl to herself...that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its o...

Tags: common sense, convention, ignorance, invisibility, privilege, queerness

I may be Anti-Big Government, but only because I am Pro-Human.

Gary Hopkins

I may be Anti-Big Government, but only because I am Pro-Human.

Tags: big brother, common sense, conspiracy, government, government corruption, humanity

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

W.C. Fields

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

Tags: betting, common sense, horses, humor
About P.D. James

Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring the police commander and poet, Adam Dalgliesh.