Magnet Quotes - Page 6

• Yes, Philadelphia is horrible, but in a very interesting way. There were places there that had been allowed to decay, where there was so much fear and crime that just for a moment there was an opening to another world. It was fear, but it was so strong, and so magical, like a magnet, that your imagination was always sparking in PhiladelphiaI just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.

  David Lynch

  Strong, Thinking, Wind

  6 Copy quote

• some travelers are drawn forward by a goal lying before them in the way iron is drawn to the magnet. Others are driven on by a force lying behind them. In such a way the bowstring makes the arrow fly.

  Isak Dinesen

  Travel, Lying, Iron

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.

  David Levithan

  Air, Desire, Weight

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I collect dice and I collect coins. I travel the world so I love dice, I always have dice on me. I collect magnets as well.

  Kellan Lutz

  Coins, World, Dice

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our success at friendship, business, sports, love--indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt--is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Confidence, Sports, Self

  16 Copy quote

• Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

  John Clellon Holmes

  Book, Imagination, Risk

  1979 Preface to reprint of The Horn.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some people think, Swami calls himself a powerful magnet, but He is unable to attract us. The fault lies in them only.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Powerful, Lying, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the Surfaces of small Planets than in those of great ones in proportion to their bulk, and small Bodies are agitated much more by electric attraction than great ones; so the smallness of the Rays of Light may contribute very much to the power of the Agent by which they are refracted.

  Isaac Newton

  Light, Stronger, Rays

  Sir Isaac Newton (1718). “Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. ...”, p.326

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves are turned to the north, as true as the magnet; This is the compass-flower, that the finger of God has planted Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey. Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert, Such in the soul of man is faith.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Flower, Journey, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.359, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet?

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Self, Law

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.134

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm sorry about your Porsche." "I can replace the Porsche. I can't replace you. You need to be more careful." I was just sitting in your car!" Babe, you're a magnet for disaster.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sorry, Car, Sitting

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Eleven on Top”, p.72, Macmillan

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.

  Kate Morton

  Children, Home, Lure

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the U.S. economy would become less of a magnet for foreign investors. Economic growth, which in any case has recently been at unsustainable levels, would decline somewhat. History proves, however, that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.

  Ben Bernanke

  Smart, Challenges, Growth

  "A Crash Course for Central Bankers" by Ben Bernanke, foreignpolicy.com. Novemeber 20, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Real, Inspiration

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Heart, Leader, Influence

  73 Copy quote

• Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music.

  Kurt Rosenwinkel

  Fusion, Jazz, Soulful

  6 Copy quote

• I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

  Amy Lee

  Tiny, Realistic, Plastic

  12 Copy quote

• Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

  Amy Chua

  Tolerance, Innovation, Enlightenment

  4 Copy quote

• At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

  Nick Cave

  School

  7 Copy quote

• Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

  Robert Carlyle

  Art, Acting, Wounded

  "Taking it seriously". Interview with Libby Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2000.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.

  Brian Molko

  Used, Weirdo

  8 Copy quote

• War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

  Mitch Albom

  War, Men, Saws

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.44, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, School, Boys

  4 Copy quote

• On the course, what is feared is like a magnet. Water, bunkers, trees, ravines, high grass - whatever you fear turns magnetic.

  Wiffi Smith

  Golf, Water, Tree

  4 Copy quote

• The issue of the American justice system is so much broader than any one party, or any area of the country, or any one policy, because the totality of it is that it's driven by the underlying politics. The underlying politics are white fear and wrath and punishment. And that's what tends to be consistent. As I say in the book, that's the magnet that's drawing the iron filings into alignment. That's the thing that's powering all of it. The gravitational pole of those politics operate on each of these disparate little actors.

  Chris Hayes

  Country, Party, Book

  Source: www.macleans.ca

  9 Copy quote

  Show source