Eliciting Quotes

#1. Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ...

Cecil Beaton

#2. The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.

Albert Brooks

#3. There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

Noam Chomsky

#4. As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in performances of imparting, eliciting, involving, or enticing, and is then thought about some more until the process can begin again

Lee S Shulman

#5. I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.

Joanne Harris

#6. In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.

William Sargant

#7. Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones ... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.

Cennino Cennini

#8. Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.

Henry A. Kissinger

#9. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Horace

#10. In humans, smell is often viewed as an aesthetic sense, as a sense capable of eliciting enduring thoughts and memories. Smell, however, is the primal sense. It is the sense that affords most organisms the ability to detect food, predators, and mates.

Richard Axel

#11. You go to a place for a visit and deep in your heart you think that this place can be your own home and Zurich is such a place!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations ... "and it is on these that history is built.

Lloyd DeMause

#13. A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks, And duckweed's opened up along his path.

Bai Juyi

#14. Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

Winston Churchill

#15. My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

Jennie Garth