Affinity Quotes · Page 9

We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and…

— Anthony Eden

Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural…

— Oscar Peterson

Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

— Scott Bakula

Sometimes just being an immigrant, I read things the wrong way, and that can be funny. Or I'll put the emphasis on…

— John Cho

I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the…

— Frantz Fanon

I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he…

— Kevin Barry

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity…

— Tom Hollander

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

— Guillaume Canet

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a…

— George Santayana

Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable…

— David E. Cooper

I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.

— Kidada Jones

“Anarchists and antiauthoritarians clearly differentiate between charity and solidarity--especially thanks to working with indigenous solidarity movements and other international solidarity movements--based on…

— M

Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to…

— Fergie

I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society.…

— Mary Ellen Mark

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.

— Jim Coleman

I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.

— Jack Kirby

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

— Jane Austen

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity…

— Michel Foucault

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too…

— William Faulkner

Heaven? I don't have an affinity with that place.

— SebastiAn

It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook…

— Haile Gerima

I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

— Bill Kurtis

Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on.

— Phil Pringle

How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will…

— Sarah Waters