Appeals Quotes - Page 30

• Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

  Larry Wall

  Oatmeal, Computer, Fingernails

  Usenet article, 1994.

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• I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.

  Alice Cooper

  Suicide, Wrists, Knows

  Song: The Quiet Room, Album: From The Inside, 1978

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• In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Science, Purpose

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• [Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section, but also upon the brain behind the eye of the observer. Each of us looks at a section with the accumulated experience of his past study. Hence the veteran cannot make the novice see with his eyes; so that what carries conviction to the one may make no appeal to the other. This fact does not always seem to be sufficiently recognized by geologists at large.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Eye, Science, Past

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• This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does not appeal to the reader. In most cases he will be able to go on and later he may return to the parts which he skipped.

  Emil Artin

  Science, Important, Doe

  Emil Artin (2016). “Geometric Algebra”, p.7, Courier Dover Publications

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• Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness.

  Theodor Adorno

  Self, Evil, Matter

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.238, Verso

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• I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

  Renee Fleming

  Art, Thinking, Media

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• When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Attention, Pay Attention, Persons

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• I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

  Tony Iommi

  Jobs, School, College

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• My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?

  Katherine Jenkins

  Dream, America, Criticism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

  Hari Kunzru

  Imagination, Fiction, Teens

  "When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

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• I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

  Jon Krakauer

  Thinking, World, Natural

  "Krakauer in Antarctica". Interview with Liesl Clark, www.pbs.org. February 11, 2003.

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• Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Stars, Men, Twenties

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• It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Men, Conquer The World

  Benjamin Disraeli (1869). “The Novels and Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P.”, p.176

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• If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

  Anil Kapoor

  Beautiful, Film, Audience

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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• I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

  Amos Lee

  Artist, Mass

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• I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

  Alexei Navalny

  Violence, Aggression, Courses

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• Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.

  William C. Brown

  Country, Religious, Media

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• We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity...The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book...It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.

  Madison Grant

  Book, Believe, Publishing House

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• The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

  Tamora Pierce

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Philip Pullman, Tamora Pierce, and Christopher Paolini Talk Fantasy Fiction". Interview with Dave Weich, www.highbeam.com. July 31, 2003.

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• I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

  Candace Parker

  Mind, Female, Want

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• Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.

  Margot Robbie

  Hippie, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.

  Shawn Ryan

  Character, Order, Needs

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• The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.

  Howard Stringer

  America, Melting, France

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• Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.

  John Terry

  Senior, Kids, Player

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