Affinity Quotes · Page 5

I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.

— Willem Dafoe

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

— Howard Gardner

Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents…

— Michael Faraday

If we get to a point where people in this country feel more affinity with a leader who is an adversary and…

— Barack Obama

Despite 18 years as a non-partisan public servant, my deeper "tribal" affinity has always been Tory. The Afghanistan file has given me…

— Chris Alexander

I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but it was intensified by…

— Mario Testino

I remember Massimo [Pupillo] sending me an email from Tibet saying he was up in a cave somewhere, being very still. We…

— Daniel O'Sullivan

To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I grew up loving monsters. I'm just a total monster geek. When I was a kid, I had the Aurora monster models,…

— John Logan

For people to even be interested and to reach out and say "I can't wait for you to come out with something",…

— Tiffany Villarreal

India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on.…

— John Gimlette

Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either…

— Christopher Kelk Ingold

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

— John Burnham Schwartz

My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz

For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom…

— Albert Einstein

There can be little liking where there is no likeness.

— Aesop

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

— Maynard James Keenan

I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each…

— Leonard Cohen

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical…

— Humphry Davy

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force…

— Edward Thomson

I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes.

— Bob Seger

I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.

— Erika Slezak

The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our…

— Dhammananda Bhikkhuni

I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian…

— Johnny Depp