Compelling Quotes

434 quotes by 400 authors

When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly… — Paul Waldman
Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue that you would… — John Katzman
The compelling thing about making artâ€”or making anything, I supposeâ€”is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance… — Audrey Niffenegger
I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm filled with music,… — Robert Jones Burdette
Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if… — Hugo Black
... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe… — Massimo Pigliucci
What happens is that as the scripts are rewritten and re-edited in order to make the story more compelling, you sometimes end up with what… — Michael Loceff
The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to… — Richard Dawkins
The thing with kids is that you only get one chance to do it right. It's really important to share their gifts while they're discovering… — Laurence Fishburne
In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My… — Valerie Harper
The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't… — Steve Jobs
Sex is meant to be, if not addictive, at least a very compelling behavior. — Joy Browne
Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight. — Robert D. Richardson
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories… — Maureen Corrigan
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know… — Ansel Adams
Reading Gypsy Boy, I felt invited into a secret society. I've always found Gypsies mysterious and even slightly dangerous, and Mikey Walsh does an excellent… — Julia Scheeres
Love is a very compelling argument. — Brian Houston
I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion. — David Foster Wallace
When you look around your life and you notice that something is missing, don't go looking for it -- create it! The key is to… — Laura Whitworth
God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think. — Criss Jami

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