Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a… — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share Image
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'd love to have Michael Jackson [in my show] because he's black and white. So he would appeal to a universal demographic. — George Lopez Copy Share Image
Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us,… — Christabel Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don't think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries - the United… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to them. And if they… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
If you were going to be attracted to a mystical faith which involved the contemplative life, Buddhism would be quite reasonable. But… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of… — Charles Hummel Copy Share Image
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a racist. Donald Trump in fact is making fascist appeals. That's why many self-respecting Republicans are not supporting Donald… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the… — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
When a musician is conveying that fresh feeling, that's what appeals to me, even more so than the style. — Joseph Trapanese Copy Share Image
I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal. — Farrah Gray Copy Share Image
We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put… — William Henry Maule Copy Share Image
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal. — Noel Tichy Copy Share Image