Attraction Quotes - Page 37

• Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic.

  Julio Iglesias

  Magic, Different, Way

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

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• Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Art, Risk, Elements

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• The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

  Josiah Strong

  Civilization, Cities, Peculiar

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.

  Nemanja Vidic

  Soccer, Football, Rain

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• Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.

  Michelle Huneven

  Art, Dad, Memories

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• I'm an ambitious person. I mean, if I did that... I would self-destruct, in the sense that the decadence would be too strong an attraction for me. Whether that be in the form of gambling, fast cars, alcohol, drugs, whatever it happens to be... I think the lure of that lifestyle would be too strong.

  James Packer

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

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• To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree, or make sense. Inspired ideas are less often solutions to old problems than newly discovered or totally reformulated problems - problems 'created' like brilliant works of art.

  Robert Grudin

  Art, Inspiration, Creativity

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, California, Better Days

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.331, Courier Corporation

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• Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it. But when it claims to have discovered the real world for us and laughs at the worlds of all simple-minded men, then we must say it is like a general grown intoxicated with his power, usurping the throne of his king

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Kings, Real, Technology

  Rabindranath Tagore, Sahitya Akademi (1996). “The English writings of Rabindranath Tagore”

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• How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.197, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Spencer was searching for a woman interested in gold, inorganic chemistry, outdoor sex and the music of Bach. In short, he was looking for himself, only female.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Gold, Female

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• Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

  John Updike

  John Updike (2007). “The Early Stories: 1953-1975”, p.821, Random House

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• The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.

  Glenn Close

  Knives, Kitchen, Way

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• When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

  Glenn Close

  Blood, Upset, Behavior

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• It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Meetings

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• Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

  William Ralph Inge

  Risk, Elements, Venture

  William Ralph Inge (1910). “Faith and Its Psychology”

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• It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Men, Ideas, Evil

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

  David McCullough

  Luck, Human Nature, Tick

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.

  Julian Barnes

  Stars, Asking Why, Paris

  "A vineyard in Montmartre: just one of the hidden pleasures of Paris" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her.

  John Churton Collins

  Relationship

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• Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Order, People, Childhood

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.17, Vintage

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• Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual astronomical objects but of the entire cosmos. The same remorseless attraction that crushes a star operates on a much grander scale on the universe as a whole.

  Paul Davies

  Crush, Nature, Stars

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.65, Basic Books

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• There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

  Kenny Rogers

  Duets, Chemistry, Ifs

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• I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an attraction to, this period, and some of my pictures are a homage to Caspar David Friedrich.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Interesting

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Sep 03, 2014

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• I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work, where the author studies things of little use or when he builds on the improbable principle of attraction. Writing about Newton's Principia. Huygens had some time earlier indicated he did not believe the theory of universal gravitation, saying it 'appears to me absurd.'

  Christiaan Huygens

  Believe, Writing, Science

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