Apeal Quotes

#1. We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

T. S. Eliot

#2. Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.

Edsger Dijkstra

#3. That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love - is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you've won yourself readers.

Sarah MacLean

#4. A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

Arthur Koestler

#5. I was born late - what my mother calls the last kick of a dying horse. There's three of us children, but I'm 13 or 14 years younger than my brother and sister.

Paul O'Grady

#6. You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far.

Israelmore Ayivor

#7. The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage.

George H. W. Bush

#8. I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

Dennis Rodman

#9. Coming and then there wasn't even time for gas and

Robert Bryndza

#10. If it ran, a Bean would eat it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.

Carolyn Chute

#11. If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.

Mark Steyn

#12. We do not need to endorse that [agains Muslims]type of activity nor should we.

Rachel Maddow

#13. When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#.

Tom Morello

#14. I couch-surfed for years. But I always wanted to live in Baltimore; I still do. If I had to choose, it would always be Baltimore.

John Waters