Famous Quotes & Sayings

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

Hugh Laurie

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

John Irving

It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.

Billy Collins

I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.

Billy Collins

I am a nonparticipant of social media. I'm not much attracted to anything that involves the willing forfeiture of privacy and the foregrounding of insignificance.

We found that women were most attracted to men other than their primary partner when they were in the high fertility phase of the menstrual cycle. That's the day of ovulation and several days beforehand.

To get into the union -- that's really what attracted me, being how hard it is to get into a union these days.

We were on the fence until we saw the pricing and that's what attracted us. It's a reasonable discount.

Mindy McCready

I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. It's just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.

David Carson

Heavy has always been about our point of view. That's why we have attracted an audience.

Susan Blackmore

People get depressed and get attracted to different types of memes. You can trace some of this to how the biological hierarchy is set up.

Clive Owen

often attracted to people with conflicts or flawed people because they're more interesting. There's something very attractive about playing an ordinary guy trying to cope with extraordinary things. He's a flawed human being struggling.

Companies with solid fundamentals attracted buying interest but we have to be more careful now.

I've always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd.

Jeff Lemire

I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work.

Steven R. McQueen

I've always been attracted to the 'don't follow the rules' type of girl, the rocker girl. I've always been attracted to somebody who you can lose yourself in the moment with. You can hang out with her, and it's like you're the only two people in the room.

Jules Shear

I've always been attracted to singing with other people. I grew up singing with my brothers and I miss that sometimes, not being in a band.

Naveen Andrews

I've always been attracted to older women because they know who they are. They look infinitely better to me.

John Rhys-Davies

I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.

Robert Wilson

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

Noah Hawley

I've always been really attracted to playing with structure. To take the story of 'Fargo' and break it up in such a way that's it's not linear, per se.

William T. Vollmann

Precisely because I'm a man who is attracted to women, there may be some things that I have to say as a spectator of feminine grace that women themselves may not be able to see.

Chloe Sevigny

That's why I was so attracted to her. You don't know what she's going to do next.

Leatrice Eiseman

A larger reason people are attracted to blue is the whole issue of water and whether or not there's going to be enough to drink,

a major catalyst for change, particularly in the growth in income. The fast-flowing, passing game introduced by Tony attracted more and more supporters as the season progressed.

This is sheer, sensationalistic speculation. This case has attracted all kinds of crazies, kooks.

The White House has always attracted the mentally ill.

Jean Fritz

The way they taught history in schools was not appealing. They stressed wars and dates. They left the people out. I was attracted to history by the need to know about the people. In China, I went to a British school, and we just learned about kings and queens. Back in America, I had the regular social studies curriculum.

Andy Garcia

There was madness. These are people who live life differently than most of us. There's that classic thing about being attracted to the one thing that will destroy you. There was madness to their love.

Idi Amin

there were other dictators on the continent whose deeds have not yet attracted filming interest.

There's a certain glamour in IT now; it's the glamour of the dot-com. A lot of kids are attracted to the major because they hear about the great job offers and the high salaries.

are attracted to the two of us diving down and up.

Corey Sevier

A sense of humor is important. I'm always attracted to a girl with confidence. In terms of looks, I don't have a type. I think a lot of girls think that they have to be super-thin, to meet the Hollywood image, but I think a girl who is voluptuous is very beautiful.