Magnetism Quotes - Page 3

• We can summarize electricity, magnetism and gravity into equations one inch long, and that's the power of field theory. And so I said to myself: I will create a field theory of strings. And when I did it one day, it was incredible, realizing that on a sheet of paper I can write down an equation which summarized almost all physical knowledge.

  Michio Kaku

  Writing, Long, One Day

  "'Physics Of The Future': How We'll Live In 2100?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www-s1.npr.org. November 29, 2011.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Vampires have bright eyes glistening white teeth unnaturally smooth skin and a certain animal magnetism. If they aren't pretty they starve. It's sort of like life in Los Angeles.

  Molly Harper

  Eye, Animal, White

  Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence.

  Gaelen Foley

  Males, Compass, Made

  Gaelen Foley (2010). “My Wicked Marquess: Number 1 in series”, p.116, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As he stared back, he altered...as if a shield slid away fro his eyes, revealing a scorching force of will that sucked the air from my lungs. The intense magnetism he exuded grew in strength, becoming a near tangible impression of vibrant and unrelenting power.

  Sylvia Day

  Eye, Air, Force Of Will

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.17, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Cities, World, Revolution

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.85, Verso

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.

  Geoff Rickly

  People, Musician, Proud

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know if I have sexual magnetism or animal magnetism, though sometimes I'll find a squirrel stuck to my forehead.

  Emo Philips

  Animal, Squirrels, Sometimes

  9 Copy quote

• To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.

  Alfred Smee

  Science, Men, Sea

  Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.300

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about [gravity] being a push. But he had the same basic belief, that the idea of magnetism attracting something was not the reason why the effects of what we call gravity occur.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Ideas, Reason Why

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I still have a whopping bad case of what you call scag magnetism. I thought i had gotten rid of it there, but it looks like scary guys still materialize from thin air in my presence. They are drawn to me. I am the North Pole, and they are the explorers of love.

  Maureen Johnson

  Air, Guy, Scary

  4 Copy quote

• Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Jobs, Moral, Prime

  50 Copy quote

• Pieta Brown is a great singer/songwriter who possesses major star power magnetism.

  Don Was

  Stars, Singers, Brown

  4 Copy quote

• MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Light, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.137, 谷月社

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think The Room is something magnetic, a certain magnetism in The Room that is related to human behavior, and that's why people relate to it.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Thinking, People, Rooms

  "The Room's producer/writer/director/lead actor/short-range tuxedo footballer Tommy Wiseau". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 26, 2009.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the od force-I don't suppose you know about the od which Reichenbach discovered.

  Edward Eggleston

  Healing, Roots, Mind

  Edward Eggleston (1891). “The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York”, Ridgewood, N.J : Gregg Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Relief, Favors, Abandoned

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical perfection; identity as a biological given) implies an ideal eroticism: sexuality converted into the magnetism of leaders and the joy of followers. The fascist ideal is to transform sexual energy into a "spiritual" force, for the benefit of the community.

  Susan Sontag

  Spiritual, Art, Perfection

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Thinking, Doors

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Sympathy, Light, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

  Eliphas Levi

  Names, Evil, Intellectual

  132 Copy quote

• A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

  Margaret Sanger

  Marriage, Average, Giving

  Family Limitation (1914)

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.

  Anne Michaels

  Rain, Past, Names

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.15, A&C Black

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd like to think they're staring at me because of my white-hot animal magnetism, but I'm not Elvis. I'm Lobster Boy, hear me roar.

  Richard Kadrey

  Animal, Boys, Thinking

  Richard Kadrey (2012). “Kill the Dead (Sandman Slim, Book 2)”, p.36, HarperCollins UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag, and right then and there, he fell in love." -Animal Magnetism

  Jill Shalvis

  Coffee, Animal, Two

  FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from May 27, 2012

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow's personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but also extended to armoires, assorted chairs and the nearby goldfish in a bowl.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Children, Men, Goldfish

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Seduce Me at Sunrise”, p.78, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source