Affinity Quotes

159 quotes by 145 authors

I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I… — Octavia Spencer
I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and… — Rainn Wilson
Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and… — Robert Wright
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your… — Virginia Woolf
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity… — Khalil Gibran
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities. — Cormac McCarthy
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was… — John Jakes
To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We… — Vladimir Nabokov
I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the… — Frantz Fanon
Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to… — Andre Breton
The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. — Patricia Highsmith
I have no affinity for animals. I donâ€™t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just donâ€™t actively care about them. When… — Tina Fey
I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good. — Tracy Letts
How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will know. Does she… — Sarah Waters
The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed. — George Santayana
For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong… — Albert Einstein
I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to… — Jeff Fahey
You could draw certain parallels between the structure of the Pompidou and the structure of the rocket-launching facilities at Cape Canaveral. They might not have… — Kenneth Frampton
I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he was an all-rounder,… — Kevin Barry

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