Appeals Quotes · Page 4

It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.

— Hermann Goring

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I have no sex appeal. If my husband didn't toss and turn, we'd never have had any kids.

— Joan Rivers

Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.

— Fritz Kreisler

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

— Sanaa Lathan

Appeal can't happen until I've been sentenced.

— Bernard von NotHaus

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

— Euripides

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

— Ambrose Bierce

The appeal of writing a romance was that I'd never written one before the The Thorn and The Blossom.

— Theodora Goss

The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that…

— Will Self

A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.

— Jerry A. Coyne

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.

— Suzanne Collins

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar…

— Christopher Lasch

I think sex appeal is something that's fun. But I'd guess any man with any conscious consideration or understanding of his own…

— Luke Goss

We have noted the appeal of Honorable Ambrosini about the decriminalizing of marijuana for medical use.

— Jacob Zuma

We're both [with Mark Wahlberg] capable of being sarcastic, vicious, violent lunatics, but we hold each other in check, appeal to the…

— Peter Berg

It's interesting to see how people bring different things to them. I think it comes down to the universal appeal of the…

— Jude Law

I want to create awareness amongst the common people of Pakistan and I generally appeal to the Pakistani people living here and…

— Abdul Sattar Edhi

Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through…

— Alexander MacLaren

I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of…

— Martha Graham

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and…

— Sam Raimi

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the…

— Marilyn Ferguson

History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish…

— Edward Hallett Carr

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why…

— Oscar Wilde

I'm not surprised that Governor Dean would oppose [the $87 billion to fund Iraq reconstruction]… I've lost confidence that he has any…

— John McCain

The US is a country [in which] eighty percent of the population thinks the Bible was written by god. About half think…

— Noam Chomsky

Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of…

— David E. Cooper

For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of…

— Alex Kozinski

The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism…

— Elie Wiesel

I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness…

— William Lane Craig

Maybe I'm too close to the two Democrats to be against either one. I went to law school with Barack Obama and…

— Keith Boykin

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

— Thomas Carlyle

Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.

— Sarah Dessen

No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.

— Lucille Kallen

Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy.

— Alfred Kahn

I don't want to appeal to everybody. [After all] everybody doesn't appeal to me.

— Eydie Gorme

... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.

— Mavis Gallant

Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald