Appeals Quotes - Page 27

• Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Writing, Boys

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• Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Writing, Character, Littles

  "Liz Meriwether: Beginning and End of the Fempire". Interview with Kate Branch, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 17, 2010.

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• I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

  Ian Frazier

  Religious, Men, Medicine

  Ian Frazier (2000). “On the Rez”, p.4, Macmillan

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• I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

  Dan Ariely

  Mistake, Odd, Found

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• And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sea, Land, Choices

  Joseph Conrad (2008). “Twixt Land and Sea”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.

  Paul Krugman

  White, Elderly, People

  "GOP Vice Presidential Nominee Paul Ryan". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. September 9, 2012.

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• When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic fallibility of their reason, and the degree in which it is distorted by the will, when, above all, they have acquired that love of truth which a constant appeal to private judgment at last produces, they will never dream that guilt can be associated with an honest conclusion, or that one class of arguments should be stifled by authority.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Dream, Exercise, Men

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.72

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• There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Atheism, Public Opinion, Court

  Charles Bradlaugh (1890). “Speeches”

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• Genuinely love doing standup and I'm a comedian first, so for me what makes my standup special is the fact that I don't have to adapt or adjust. I am who I am. I appeal to everyone, hence in the movie doing a world tour.

  Kevin Hart

  Who I Am, Comedian, Special

  "Up all night with Kevin Hart". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society.

  Paul Stanley

  Brother, Kids, Rocks

  "Kiss: Miley Cyrus is 'being treated unfairly'". Interview with Daniel D'Addario, www.salon.com. September 12, 2013.

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• I'm bringing raw sex appeal. That's my whole thing.

  Kenna

  Sex, Whole, Sex Appeal

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't believe in God. I believe gods and devils are within us. It's our own battle. Our life's battle is to appeal to the gods within us, and to fight the devils within us.

  Eddie Izzard

  Believe, Fighting, Battle

  "Eddie Izzard Talks TREASURE ISLAND, Possibility of a Sequel, and MUNSTERS Reboot MOCKINGBIRD LANE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 1, 2012.

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• I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.

  Sophia Loren

  Sex, Sex Appeal, Susceptible

  "Fictional character: Epifania Parerga". "The Millionaires", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• [The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.

  James Madison

  Hate, Party, Believe

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.482

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• The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a limited faculty, and not to the whole man. It is not Linnaeus or Cavendish or Cuvier who gives us the true sense of animals, or water, or plants, who seizes their secret for us, who makes us participate in their life; it is Shakspeare [sic] … Wordsworth … Keats … Chateaubriand … Senancour.

  Matthew Arnold

  Animal, Men, Giving

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Essays in Criticism”, p.76

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• ... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.

  Ruth Benedict

  Country, Fall, Ignorance

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• Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.

  John Barth

  Art, Mean, Men

  John Barth (1984). “The Friday book: essays and other nonfiction”, Putnam Pub Group

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• By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority . . .

  Jacob Bronowski

  Trying, Prejudice, Cost

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Running, Religious

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• The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact, as I recall, removing prayer from U.S. public schools cost less than $20,000... no Christian organization filed a brief in support of our opponents.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.

  Gus Van Sant

  Rose, Drug, Brain

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• [Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [...] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.

  John C. Reilly

  Country, Thinking, Rocks

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• Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Couple, Husband

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.

  Mary Fisher

  Children, Health, Grace

  1992 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 19 August 1992, Houston, TX

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• You know, there's a certain irony in the fact that our lives and perhaps the lives of everyone on Earth may depend on Captain Patterson's sex appeal.

  Charles Beaumont

  Sex, Men, Earth

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