sensation quotes

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. But weel wat I they coudna bring Waur sounds frae hell.

- Edna Ferber
  'To the Tron-Kirk Bell', stanza1.

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
   Trio, The Mikado, act1.

   When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. Theyare all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

- Ernest Millar Hemingway
  Winner Take Nothing,'Fathers and Sons'.

The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  'The Name and Nature of Poetry', Lecture at Cambridge, 9 May.

These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.

-John Locke
  Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk.2, pt.1, section 4.