Seducing Quotes - Page 9

• I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.

  Omar Sharif

  Sex, Thinking, People

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• Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Youth, Covetousness

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• The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent from the bottom.

  Joe Bean

  Jobs, Numbers, Kinky

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• Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

  Walter Lippmann

  Insecure, Successful, Men

  1955 The Public Philosophy, ch.2, sect.4.

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• Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Rocks, Trying, Sex Drugs And Rock And Roll

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• This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Sex, Rocks, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fashion is a MUSE, you must seduce her.

  Anna Dello Russo

  Fashion, Muse

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• A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

  Po Bronson

  Writing, Pieces, Disbelief

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• I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Strong, Creating

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• Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Emotional, Self

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.346, Hachette UK

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• The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

  Brian Eno

  People, Important, Pieces

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• What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

  Lucian Freud

  Painting, Convince, Asks

  National Gallery (Great Britain), Lucian Freud (1987). “The artist's eye: Lucian Freud : an exhibition of National Gallery Paintings selected by the artist 17 June - 16 August 1987”

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• Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

  Dustin Hoffman

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Great Year

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• Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Sleep, Men

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