Appeals famous quotes

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
-- Alan Rickman

#Misfits #Appeals #Maverick

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Dictator #Appeals #Tyranny

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

#Violence #Appeals #Aggression

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
-- Alison Bechdel

#Catholic #Confession #Appeals

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.
-- Amos Lee

#Artist #Mass #Appeals

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
-- Andre Breton

#Example #Vain #Appeals

The Sound of Music was just such an honour to be in, because it was a movie that appeals to so many people, and they just loved it so much and they still love it to this day.
-- Angela Cartwright

#People #Sound #Appeals

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Mystery #Appeals

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 #Appeals

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Sex #Measurement #Appeals

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.
-- Barack Obama

#Appeals #Decency

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Serious #Appeals #Intellect

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
-- Bryan Adams

#Writing #Trying #Appeals

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
-- C.P. Snow

#People #Advertising #Appeals

The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.
-- Carl Sagan

#Religious #Appeals #Chauvinism

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
-- Claude Debussy

#Effort #Perception #Appeals

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
-- Clive Bell

#Art #Mark #Appeals

I have never understood the appeal of babies, they seem such horrible creatures most of the time!
-- Douglas Feaver

#Baby #Appeals #Horrible

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

#Force #Appeals

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
-- Eddie Van Halen

#Appeals

A woman's uniqueness is her greatest appeal to a man - and his greatest challenge.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Men #Challenges #Appeals

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.
-- Ellen Barkin

#Androgyny #Certain #Appeals

You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to.
-- Emilio Estevez

#Film #Appeals

I don't want to appeal to everybody. [After all] everybody doesn't appeal to me.
-- Eydie Gorme

#Want #Appeals

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
-- Felix Frankfurter

#Appeals #Electorate #Militant

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Court #Appeals #Shows

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.
-- Freddie Mercury

#Appeals #Convince

I'd love to have Michael Jackson [in my show] because he's black and white. So he would appeal to a universal demographic.
-- George Lopez

#Black And White #Demographics #Appeals

We have to broaden our appeal to more customers than simply high-end customers. We have to understand that, in the aggregate, there are fewer customers out there, so we have to appeal to them all,
-- Glenn Tilton

#Ends #Appeals

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.
-- Gordon Brown

#Proud #Britain #Appeals

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
-- Hannibal

#Vanity #Intellectual #Appeals

Sex appeal is not on purpose.
-- Heather Locklear

#Sex #Purpose #Appeals

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
-- Henri Bergson

#Sex #Civilization #Appeals

If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.
-- Hugo Weaving

#Scripts #Appeals

And Helvetica maybe says everything, and that's perhaps part of its appeal.
-- Jonathan Hoefler

#Helvetica #Appeals

Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
-- Judah Smith

#Sin #Goodness #Appeals

I will never understand the appeal of the Hawaiian pizza.
-- Judd Winick

#Appeals #Hawaiians #Pizza

I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.
-- Juice Newton

#Lucky #Type #Appeals

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.
-- Lee Marvin

#Garbage #Appeals

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.
-- Leopold Stokowski

#Done #Appeals #Mediums

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
-- Lionel Barrymore

#Age #Sincerity #Appeals

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.
-- Lisa Gardner

#Thinking #Suspense #Appeals

We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
-- Livy

#Loss #Appeals #Circumstances

From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
-- Lord Acton

#People #Redemption #Appeals

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
-- Loretta Young

#Voice #Attractive #Appeals

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#War #Heroism #Appeals

People are influenced by what we are, what we radiate. This has greater appeal than what we say.
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#People #Appeals

... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.
-- Mavis Gallant

#Memories #Appeals

The F-bomb. It's everywhere. You hear it all the time. And I honestly don't understand what the appeal is over the word.
-- Mel Robbins

#Bombs #Appeals #Honestly

The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.
-- Nathan Myhrvold

#Powerful #Computer #Appeals

The invitation to repent is rarely a voice of chastisement but rather a loving appeal to turn around and to “re-turn” toward God.
-- Neil L. Andersen

#Voice #Appeals #Repent

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
-- Nick Lowe

#Artist #Numbers #Appeals

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 #Appeals

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.
-- Paul Farmer

#Doe #Appeals #Catholicism

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth
-- Paul Johnson

#People #Feelings #Appeals

Making changes to better appeal to customer is INNOVATION.
-- Peter Drucker

#Innovation #Making Changes #Appeals

Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Sex #Opposites #Appeals

But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.
-- Robert Falcon Scott

#Country #Giving #Appeals

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Mouths #Pity #Appeals

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.
-- Robert Scheer

#Groups #Appeals #Interest

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.
-- Robinson Jeffers

#Poetry #Instinct #Appeals

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Ideas #Doing Me #Appeals

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.
-- Sam Abell

#Photography #Appeals #Deny

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.
-- Sanaa Lathan

#Writing #Storytelling #Appeals

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.
-- Sandra Bernhard

#Gay #Trying #Appeals

Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.
-- Sarah Dessen

#Charming #Deliberation #Appeals

What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities.
-- Scott Ian

#Zombie #Appeals #Entity

Being hunted, paparazzi-style , doesn't appeal to me.
-- Sia Furler

#Style #Appeals #Paparazzi

I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.
-- Sophia Loren

#Sex #Appeals

Im busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesnt appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.
-- Steve Albini

#Jobs #Busy #Appeals

Tel Aviv appeals to me.
-- Taylor Caldwell

#Appeals

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
-- Thomas Huxley

#Thinking #Authority #Appeals

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.
-- Tinie Tempah

#Race #Appeals

I'm definitely not gonna make a joke about separating the whites and colours, so don't try to make me. So instead, I'll just say something like “BOOGABOOGABOOGADOBLUH I'M A PERSON BLUHBLUHBLGUHGHGGHGH”. That appeals to everybody.
-- Toby Turner

#Trying #Appeals #Colour

I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.
-- Victoria Justice

#Writing #Want #Appeals

Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.
-- Walt Disney

#Judgment #Appeals #Competence

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.
-- Wassily Kandinsky

#Abstract #Appeals #Form

Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.
-- William Bernbach

#Guarantees #Logical #Appeals

I appeal to your own eyes as my witness and judge.
-- William Harvey

#Eye #Judging #Appeals

Time does not have the same appeal for every one
-- William Shakespeare

#Doe #Appeals

Appeal can't happen until I've been sentenced.
-- Bernard von NotHaus

#Appeals #Happens

You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
-- Conor Cruise O'Brien

#Appeals #Certainty #United Nations

I'm bringing raw sex appeal. That's my whole thing.
-- Kenna

#Sex #Appeals #Whole

A one-word book does appeal to me.
-- Kode9

#Book #Doe #Appeals

Each period has its own appeal.
-- Luciano Benetton

#Periods #Appeals

I've guess I've gotten older and my sex appeal has waned. It's OK. I've got an amazing girlfriend and she keeps me happy.
-- Mark Kozelek

#Girlfriend #Sex #Appeals

The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time.
-- Mike Pesca

#Baseball #Games #Appeals

I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
-- Om Puri

#Cinema #Appeals #Subjects

I think the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals abused its power all day long.
-- Bill O'Reilly

#Thinking #Long #Appeals

There's no point in really making something if it doesn't appeal to a lot of people or the masses or if it's not seen by a lot of people.
-- Aidan Turner

#People #Mass #Appeals

We cannot justify ourselves in living by that particular part of the word that appeals to us, the part that we desire to obey, but must be willing to. . . live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
-- Albert E. Bowen

#Desire #Mouths #Appeals

We must accept all of Gods will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.
-- Rod Parsley

#Pleasure #Accepting #Appeals

The appeal of writing a romance was that I'd never written one before the The Thorn and The Blossom.
-- Theodora Goss

#Writing #Romance #Appeals