“I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing--including myself.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind… — Scott Brooks Copy Share Image
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. — Llewellyn Powers Copy Share Image
It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“No evidence can be more convincing than when dramatic healing power touches your life in a personal way.” — Habib Sadeghi Copy Share Image
...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks… — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from… — Koki Hirota Copy Share Image
No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the… — Jonathan LaPaglia Copy Share Image
When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event.… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind. — Claude M. Bristol Copy Share Image
I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri. — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image
I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way… — Atle Selberg Copy Share Image
I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing. — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future. — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
People know how to create a convincing character to fool you into thinking that they are the one for you when they… — Being Hurt By Someone You Love Copy Share Image
For me, a script has to be convincing, bold, and experimental. It needs to overpower all my senses. — Urvashi Rautela Copy Share Image