Attraction Quotations

There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.

In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.

At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.

I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.

I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.

The railroads once were a dominant power in American life, for good and for ill. There's something inevitably nostalgic about a train book today. Trains attract us, but part of that attraction is cultural memory.

You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities.

The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.

I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.

It's possible there are no two books in publishing history more dissimilar than 'Human Traces' and 'Devil May Care.' And that was really the attraction of it.

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.

My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s.

We started three seasons ago with Monday Night Football. We thought it might be a catchy attraction to get guys who don't regularly go to church.

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

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

Nothing soulful is birthed from force.

Attractions are proportional to destinies.

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

The face, not the woman is the attraction.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

There is a shipping boom and a port boom. As long as China is driving the market, the attraction of ships and ports will be sustained.

The creative legacy of Pirates of the Caribbean has come full circle with the attraction initially inspiring our highly successful film franchise and now the films inspiring exciting additions to the attraction itself.

Love in the peace of the blessing in the inheritance with a god in the worship of the man and an attraction in neatness is a GOOD MARRIAGE.

She is living the dream of so many people who watch Big Brother and her attraction is therefore huge.

Motorola is putting up a good fight ? the only real challenger to Nokia. But its portfolio hasn't the same attraction as Nokia at the moment.

Max and Moritz for their part found no attraction in it.

My feeling is that what somebody like us does is much better expressed and conveyed and related to as a policy of attraction rather than promotion.

People want to know whether a place is a credible first-world city. What they found in New Orleans was that underneath the gloss and facade of a first-world tourist attraction was a third-world reality. It will take a lot of work to erase that view.

Only the most technologically savvy universities are able to compete in the field of drug discovery and bioinformatics. Georgia Tech's focus on top-of-the-line technology and research facilities and the attraction of Dr. Jeff Skolnick and other world-class scholars will raise its presence in this competitive market and attract some of the nation's brightest students to join our research team to advance medicines that will improve the well-being of people everywhere.

I got in athletics, which gave me self-esteem and made me feel like I had a place in the world; that was the initial attraction with acting for me.

If they can afford to spend money on that kind of thing for visitor attraction why aren't they spending the money on getting this facility going?

I felt a powerful attraction to Victor Mature. I was married, but all the passion and most of the love in that marriage were gone, or going.

I don't think he's moving out here to be living close to me, per se, ... I think the idea of living in this climate and his affinity to golf is a big attraction for Baggy. There are tons of golf courses out here, but I've never played golf with him out here.

If a person deals with same-sex attractions, they are told that the only way for them to be happy is to identify as a gay and to embrace their sexual orientation. What we contend is that a person who has same-sex attraction can identify any way that they want to.

I agree that MP3 is going to be the top attraction this year and to a lesser extent the ability to send videos.

I think it has an attraction: the Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street, the fun area, it's warmer than Madison. But now it's got the attraction of a city in dire need, a physical manifestation of a way we can help out.

I think it's going to turn out very well. We're sure it'll be a very big attraction when it's finished.

I think it's become a tourist attraction, which kind of takes away the nostalgia of it, ... I don't like that it's become a tourist attraction and CBGB T-shirts are sold at Urban Outfitters and stuff.

I think the major attraction to me was?Christophe.

I think the public now is beginning to appreciate this man's talent. As the most talented fighter in the world, he will be in a position to be the biggest attraction and make the most money. I think one thing will naturally follow the other, as long as -- as he said -- is cooperative with the media and knows and understands promotion. The sky's the limit.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

I think a lot of people like the Chicago thing because it's maybe more of a destination. But Indianapolis did an incredible job of making us feel like we were the main attraction in town.

I think this can become a great tourist attraction because people love to visit old cemeteries. This is a great opportunity to point out the history of Chester.

I think that's a part of what motivates me in my teaching and writing. Once the Gospel feels mainstream and becomes a nicely organized, orchestrated belief system, frankly, I don't think there is even an attraction to the human spirit.

People always say they thought fields had to be green and I agreed. Maybe we'll get an orange one; it would be a great attraction for Bowling Green.

Our higher growth rate, stable inflation and other positive economic fundamentals make South Africa and particularly South African financial services a compelling attraction for investors.

Our goal, as reflected in our mission statement, is to help create a diversified, vibrant and sustainable economy through attraction and support of businesses meeting the vision and standards desired by city leaders. There is a whole lot to our department; we handle new business requests for information, answer questions about existing businesses and try to head people in the right direction to obtain the information they are looking for.

Part of the attraction is that a lot of people couldn't get there.

That benefits businesses on (U.S.) 72 because they'll drive by and hopefully stop on their way to downtown. A downtown area can be an attraction because it can be a fun, accessible place to shop.

NASCAR continues to attract more and more female fans. They are an enthusiastic and loyal group who possess a unique intensity in regards to the sport. The new NASCAR Harlequin titles should be a real attraction for this segment of our fans.

My personal belief is that attraction to SF/F is coded right into your genes. I was attracted to monsters and robots as far back as I can remember.

Look, he's rich and he's sexy and there's always been an attraction between Lex and Lana. Whether or not she wants to admit it, Lana has always had some feelings for Lex.

I think Fruit Chan is an interesting director because he could offer a purely commercial attraction with artistic subjects and personalities.

I think this group is well-connected. For some reason, there's some real help coming out of the halls this year, and I don't know what the attraction is.

I'm so excited to be here at Murray State. For me, the biggest attraction of all is how the fans and students of Murray State are basketball crazy. I'm looking forward to experiencing it and continuing the great Racer tradition. I'm used to coming into a program and turning it around. This is one that I need to keep going and take it another step further.

That was a huge attraction for my husband. We've tried to do some catering out at our other place, but the kitchen is a lot smaller and it hasn't worked very well. (Ken) is excited to use exercise his culinary muscle.

Most of our resorts do enjoy other things around that help drive the attraction to the area, and we are just now seeing at the (South) Pier things just now starting to open up, and it will help give a vibrancy to the area that will help everybody down there.

Michael's attraction to the edge, coupled with his high energy, passion and business sense, is a rare combination.

You can have just a lot and the building doesn't exist anymore, but it's an attraction for criminal activity and trash and the city can't declare it blighted anymore.

We really want to get the audience invested in this slow-burning relationship and the attraction between the two and not bring romantic entanglements for Pepper in too early.

We're used to boy meets girl, boy likes girl, instant attraction on TV. But you throw a son in there, you throw a marriage in there, and you've got some really good character stuff.

Virtuality - connection without proximity - is a major attraction in both fandom and the Net. Nobody knows you're a dog through the U.S. mail, either. Fans could be utterly different in their fanzine persona, which may be why both fandom and the Net were invented by individualistic Americans.

Walt Disney World engineers and ride system experts completed a thorough inspection of the attraction overnight and found it to be operating properly. A representative from the state Bureau of Fair Rides Inspection monitored the ride inspection and testing.

This would increase the attraction of South Africa as a country to invest in.

Times have changed. Trying to compete as a small attraction in the Southern California area has become tougher and tougher.

Traditionally, we have looked at economic development as job attraction and job retention.

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

The world is as you are.

We've been discussing already an 'Aliens' attraction and there's a discussion of a 'Titanic' attraction, what I call the 'Titanic' restaurant-slash-near-death experience.

UC Berkeley has always held a special attraction for me. It has such a storied history, and I like how the university looks at the world from a humanitarian and activist viewpoint. It also has a good history department.

When people belong to something they make more of an attraction to the school. They take more pride in school and feel more at home.

Yet with all the attraction that it has, our youth cannot long remain without feeling the narrowness of simply a classification of the world. Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

When you hire a good coach, it's basically an attraction. (Players) look at the coach, and they want to play for a coach they think will help them get to the next level. The kids here are basically having a good time. They're learning we're winning because of the coach. It's attraction. The word attraction is very, very important. A good coach attracts.

When Sharapova, Venus or Serena do things outside the sport to get attraction it can only be good for the game. We're in a world where it's not just about sports it's about entertainment.

Few people travel from a long distance solely for one attraction or one part of an experience. I think the job here is to complement the Rock Hall with other venues that are also attractive. If the Rock Hall has not reached its peak yet, it's because we are not drawing enough to other venues.

We're talking about people in their 30s wanting to take a sabbatical and see the world, go back to school, fix up a house or have a baby. The attraction that 401(k) accounts will have for people who can't touch them until they're in their 60s won't be as strong as the attraction of an employer participation program where employees can access those funds earlier in their lives. They'll want to make some of their dreams come true earlier rather than later.

What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction.

What attracted me originally was the uniqueness of the asset in the area we were actually looking for. It was such an amazing attraction to us. You just can't replicate it.

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

We expect most of our noon clients to be 55 and older. Many older people are not comfortable driving at night. So this is a nice daytime attraction for them. Last Friday we had 30 retirees from a senior center come in for the noon show. Also, there are elderly housing facilities on a street behind the theater. Those folks live close enough to walk here.

This site has been a popular tourist attraction since right after the battle.

Bristol-Myers' dividend has been an important attraction for value minded investors -- providing the key back-stop for shares even amidst the company's near-term negative growth outlook and lackluster pipeline news.

Beauty is a marketing tool for Mother Nature's most basic product - reproduction - which in turn depends upon sexual attraction and success.

Enhancing the classic Pirates attractions with new characters and new technology will ensure their relevance and place in Disney theme parks as timeless adventures. We're adding a layer of storytelling from the films to the attraction while retaining all the familiar elements that make it vibrant and exciting for every age group.

There's a future for it and I believe the town needs an attraction of this nature and size to bring people in.

The sailfish is a tourist attraction and a big landmark.

It would be naive to believe that kind of attraction stops after age 18, ... It takes no brilliance of vision to see that the sex abuse crisis involves the great difficulty of those with same sex attraction living in close quarters with males.