Affinity Quotes · Page 4

After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.

— Trevor Dunn

You tend to do deals with people you have an affinity with, especially at the beginning.

— Julie Wainwright

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

— Scott Bakula

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

— Tracy Letts

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

— Willem Dafoe

It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.

— Joey Santiago

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I had a particular affinity for wrestling, and it did have a lot to do with being small and being combative -…

— John Irving

The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and…

— Pico Iyer

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will…

— Theodore Parker

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

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer. It's always…

— Scott Bakula

If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It…

— Matt Smith

I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or…

— Foxy Brown

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity…

— Hugo Weaving

Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie…

— Donald Wildmon

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

— Michel Foucault

People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We…

— Vladimir Nabokov

When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like…

— Doug E. Fresh

I have no affinity for animals. I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don’t actively care…

— Tina Fey

“Identifying leader category “affinities”: Affinity means that when one product is purchased, then another is often purchased as well. This analysis helps…

— Herb Sorensen

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

— Phil Pringle

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

— William Hazlitt

Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.

— Luke Evans

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

— Ludacris

I have an affinity for a lot of things that are kind of fairy-tale-ish and bookish.

— Alison Sudol

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

— Jack Kirby

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

— Guillaume Canet

I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods.

— Kyle MacLachlan

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

— J. G. Holland

I'm English and I am British. I don't know if I feel part of a music scene. Musically, I have as many…

— David Gilmour

Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is…

— Salman Rushdie

How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that…

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

I think Trump's affinity for Netanyahu is part of the fact that he is most comfortable with fellow bullies. He is setting…

— Lawrence Davidson

Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

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

— Oscar Peterson