Charm Quotes - Page 20

• I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it's so rich in texture that my eyes actually get tired. Everything is in focus down to the littlest leaf.

  Matt Groening

  Tired, Eye, Thinking

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• Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

  Tippi Hedren

  Funny, Suspense Novels, Fields

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• It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Smart, Personality, Arrogance

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• There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they look like Mel Gibson, still striving for drunken charm in an L.A. County mug shot, after getting picked up on a DWI charge that included anti-semitic slurs directed at the police.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Walking Dead, Police, Looks

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• Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.

  Jon Landau

  Song, Voice, Special

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• Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.

  Lucy Larcom

  Lying, Hands, House

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

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• I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Lying, Politician, Danger

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• I didn't get the charm gene.

  Henry Paulson

  Genes

  "Eight Days" by James B. Stewart, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2009.

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• Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.

  Busy Philipps

  Cake, Class, Cities

  "Busy Philipps: Reality Show Wunderkind". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. January 22, 2013.

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• You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie Couric, the Tri Delt from Virginia who became America's sweetheart on the 'Today' show. But her ratings have been dismal - she comes in last place every week.

  Rob Sheffield

  Caring, Thinking, Virginia

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• I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.

  Wesley Snipes

  Handsome, Beautiful People, Charming

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• I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

  Jon Stewart

  Awards, Host, Third Time

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

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• In 1977, I climbed a fairly difficult mountain for the first time, which was Mount McKinley, in Alaska. I climbed the so-called 'American Direct Route,' which was a route straight up to the top. I really enjoyed it. Through such experiences, I learned that mountaineering wasn't just about height. I found that different routes have different charms.

  Tamae Watanabe

  Alaska, Mountain, Different

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• Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Islands, Doe

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Persistence, Mind

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring teeth through the crimson walls, rending them; the ravenous garden slavered over its prey and every brick was shown in the act of falling. Amid the violence of this transformation, the oblivion of the embrace went on. The awakened girl, in all her youthful loveliness, still clasped in the arms of a lover from whom all the flesh had fallen. He was a grinning skeleton.

  Angela Carter

  Girl, Wall, Flower

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• I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Want, Breakfast Of Champions, I Can

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1, Hamilton Books

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• Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mind, Matter, Breakfast Of Champions

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strange, Far Away

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1897). “A Memoir By His Son”

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• Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.

  Herman Melville

  Names, Oil, Water

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.53, Velvet Element Books

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• I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe.

  Maya Angelou

  Ocean, Magic, Breathe

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.172, Random House

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• I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.

  J. G. Ballard

  Believe, Night, Imagination

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

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• My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.

  Joseph Conrad

  Encouragement, Trying, Glimpse

  The Nigger of the Narcissus preface (1897)

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