Charming Quotes - Page 18

• The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Style, Way

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.120, Harvard University Press

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• Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

  Richard Russo

  Fun, Looks, Oscars

  "Failbetter" Interview, www.failbetter.com.

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• By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision

  Hugo Gernsback

  Mean, Romance, Vision

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• The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Heart, Mind, Church

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.34, Moody Publishers

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• I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Real, Princess

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• I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

  Kara Lindsay

  Thinking, Voice, Dreamer

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting With Newsies Star Kara Lindsay". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 30, 2011.

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• The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time, Smart (in its own time), Dowdy one year after its time, Ridiculous twenty years after its time, Amusing thirty years after its time, Quaint fifty years after its time, Charming seventy years after its time, Romantic one-hundred years after its time, Beautiful one-hundred-and-fifty years after its time.

  James Laver

  Beautiful, Smart, Years

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• I am now experiencing perfect health, abundant prosperity and complete and utter happiness. This is true because the world is full of charming people who now lovingly help me in every way. I am now coming into an innumerable company of angels. I am now living a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind. Because of my own increased health, wealth and happiness, I am now able to help others live a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind, my good - our good - is universal.

  Catherine Ponder

  Angel, Helping Others, Wealth And Happiness

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• As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

  Sandra Lee

  Kids, Perfect, Denver

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• Around the edge of the crowd was a little 13-year-old bouncing up and down with a grin that went from ear to ear. She was so happy for her sister. It was a charming moment, and I think thats the essence of what Emily Hughes is.

  Dick Button

  Thinking, Years, Essence

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• We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

  Gabrielle Union

  Letting Go, Assuming, Realizing

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• The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no use for clocks or appointments. It comes and goes as it pleases in our memory, camping out wherever the hell it damn well wants to in there. Untrustworthy, prone to exaggeration, biased- you wouldn't lend it ten cents, but it *sure* can be charming and seductive when it feels like it.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Brother, Memories, Past

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• A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

  Michel de Certeau

  Memories, Sleep, Long

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.108, Univ of California Press

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• Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

  John Fletcher

  Brother, Sleep, Care

  'Valentinian' (performed c.1610-14) act 5, sc. 7 'Song'

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• It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Marriage, Mean, Knowing

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• A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.

  Alistair MacLeod

  Book, Fine, Tales

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• I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.

  Charles Darwin

  Music, Sex, Opposites

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.7535, Delphi Classics

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• Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Sunset, Vision

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.242, Modern Library

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• A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to "make up" verses.

  Lucy Larcom

  Morning, Thinking, Poetry

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• ... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Men, Thinking, Dancing

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• They always say, doing what I do for a living, write what you know and then people will respond to it. I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in. All I had to do was write a character that was like my mom, and it made my life easier.

  Dan Fogelman

  Mom, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

  Will Smith

  Teacher, Different, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• On your eyelids crown the god of sleep,
  Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,
  Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep
  As is the difference betwixt day and night
  The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team
  Begins his golden progress in the east.

  William Shakespeare

  Team, Sleep, Night

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.501

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• When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and dramatic artists. And I'm presented with costumes and great music to choose from and sets. I travel a certain amount of places, so I've been living in a bubble. And I like it.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Morning, Artist

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• So every so often, when I meet someone who's honestly appalled by my books and doesn't understand why they would be attractive to people... I find such people sort of charming, even though they usually don't like me.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, People, Would Be

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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