Fondness Quotes - Page 5

• My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

  Norman Lock

  Drama, Writing, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word... and the sung word.

  Joel Plaskett

  Book, Use, Language

  Source: thewiremegazine.blogspot.com

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• Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Men, Yellow

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• If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Teacher, Struggle, Sacrifice

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• Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Poor, Substitutes

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.55

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• The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Men, Vanity

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.338

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• He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Cat, Home

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• In regard to dogs, my most memorable thoughts concern my daughter's dog and her fondness for them. In fact, one day while working at the office, she hosted a birthday party for one of her Newfoundlands and the party was attended by dogs of other coworkers. It was a hectic few hours, but I believe the guests enjoyed themselves.

  Tom Monaghan

  Friendship, Daughter, Dog

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• Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God from a study of his works?" Haldane replied: "An inordinate fondness for beetles."

  John B. S. Haldane

  God, Might, Study

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• When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness ... it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

  Robert Legato

  Motivation, Inspiration, Enthusiasm

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• I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.

  Iris Apfel

  Husband, Men, Lucky

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• [At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.

  Allan McLeod Cormack

  School, Knowledge, Learning

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• Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.

  Herb Ritts

  Growing Up, Light, California

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• Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Space, Library

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• Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behaviour, fondness for dress, on theother hand to jealousy and matrimonial discord.

  Emil Kraepelin

  Adventure, Hands, Bipolar

  "Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia".

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• Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

  Matt Ridley

  Depressing, Simple, Environmental

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• It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.

  Sloane Crosley

  School, Alzheimer's, People

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.119, Portobello Books

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• Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Morning, Kindness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.69

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• The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.

  Isaac Watts

  Self, Long, Prejudice

  "Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth".

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• Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger causes - eclipses the far less romantic displays of moral and intellectual fortitude that also distinguish so many of them. In turning them all into heroes, we have lost a sense of the individuality they also fight to preserve.

  Elizabeth Samet

  War, Hero, Fighting

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• No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be a great fondness and perverseness to be displeased that we are not exempted from, but exposed to bear a share in the common troubles and burdens of mankind.

  Isaac Barrow

  Adversity, Men, Degrees

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• In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Men, Giving

  George Eliot (1875). “Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.224

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• As I look back on my fondness for the outdoors, and specifically the elements in nature that I find visually stimulating, I am surprised at how often the theme of dead trees arise. I guess it's that each one seems to have a story of its own, representing many years of living through everything that nature could throw at them.

  Cory Trepanier

  Years, Tree, Looks

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• Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.

  John Dos Passos

  Men, Play, Optimism

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Home, Thinking

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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