Gravitate Quotes

#1. I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean, George Eliot is my absolute heroine.

Julia Glass

#2. The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.

Iman

#3. I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

Andy Serkis

#4. The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me.

Jay Griffiths

#5. If Peking wasn't stopped in the peninsular war, he argued, China would be recognized as "the military colossus of the East." U.S. prestige would plummet, and the world's new nations would gravitate toward neutralism.

William Manchester

#6. The image I gravitate towards are spunky women, women who talk back.

Catherine Hicks

#7. When I watch shows, what I gravitate to is serial. You need to come back, you need to know what's happening.

Krysten Ritter

#8. All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate towards.

Louis Leterrier

#9. You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.

Donnie Wahlberg

#10. I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having reactions to things that seem inappropriate, or being happy in an apparently unhappy situation.

Matt Nix

#11. People gravitate toward products that are bold, but instantly comprehensible: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable--MAYA.

Derek Thompson

#12. Have faith, let go, and gravitate towards.

Stefan Emunds

#13. I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.

Aaron Paul

#14. Thoughts like weeds will grow automatically unless we train them according to our choice. Thoughts gravitate according to what's happening around us.

Hina Hashmi

#15. When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.

Tom DeLonge

#16. As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

Boz Scaggs

#17. I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or learning them or writing them. And so, by the time the day is done, I usually just want to click on The Bachelor and fall asleep. But I gravitate toward biographies and things like that.

Justin Theroux

#18. I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

Henry Rollins

#19. I'm always inspired by all of my friends. I aspire to make clothes that my friends would want to wear, that they would gravitate towards anyway.

Chris Benz

#20. Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

John Corigliano

#21. ...relentlessly pursue your best method of getting customers, and not the stuff you naturally gravitate to.

Dan Norris

#22. I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.

Aaron Paul

#23. Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.

Steve Nash

#24. Who knows? If women all end up with the same face and body, men may gravitate toward the quirky. Then the chicks with the laugh lines and love handles will be the lucky ones.

Maureen Dowd

#25. There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

John Podesta

#26. I'm boyish with a feminine twist. I definitely gravitate toward oversized things like shirts and jackets. I like a good trouser, but then I might mix it up with something more feminine, like a pointy boot or pumps.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

#27. People say the Beatles were John Lennon. What is Paul McCartney? Chopped liver? But everyone has their own favourite members whose creativity they gravitate to. That's normal.

Mike Love

#28. Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.

Napoleon Hill

#29. Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people.

Norman Reedus

#30. Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human action or a natural disaster, interact the way the opposite poles of magnets do: they tend to gravitate towards each other.

Zygmunt Bauman

#31. Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

Helen Fisher

#32. Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

David W. Earle

#33. Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

Claudia Rankine

#34. I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces.

Michael Kenna

#35. I do find that when I see women who flesh out the television or film world and make it look more like the world I actually live in, I gravitate towards those characters.

Allison Tolman

#36. I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.

Isabella Rossellini

#37. Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.

Kristen Wiig

#38. I will say that I do gravitate more towards quirkier guys. I always date guys who wear glasses.

Jillian Rose Reed

#39. I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

Alastair Reynolds

#40. I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

Charles Kelley

#41. Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

Dani Shapiro

#42. There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.

Michael Bay

#43. If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

Seth

#44. we don't ask what works, we simply gravitate to what sounds miraculous.

Tim Harford

#45. Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

Peter Dinklage

#46. During difficult economic times, consumers gravitate toward the brands they know, the brands they love and trust.

Muhtar Kent

#47. With acting, you do want to get every job, and you're trying to get every audition, but then you reach a certain stage where you start to kind of gravitate toward the stories and the people that have a similar heartbeat.

Jason Clarke

#48. I've lived in N.Y. and L.A. for many years, but I still gravitate to New Orleans - it's so unique and so European. There's nothing else like it in the country. It has its own music, its own food, its own style and its own way of life.

Bryan Batt

#49. You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

Bill Paxton

#50. Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can kind of pick up on that: they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you.

Lilly Singh

#51. You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don't have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that's actually saying something.

Kevin Hart

#52. In my youth, I was always one for the dramatic entrance. Now, in keeping with my character, I gravitate more toward the subtle and refined. Okay, with the occasional feathered serpent thrown in.

Jonathan Stroud

#53. Just do what you love, make yourself happy and then awesome people will gravitate towards you.

Charles Trippy

#54. I do feel that even though I didn't grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I felt myself definitely gravitate towards these movies that have a high concept and yet they're giving you a moral dilemma within that.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#55. I think for me when you look at the idea of being able to create a limitless world and use it almost as a playground for action and adventure and so forth, I naturally gravitate towards cinematic worlds, whether it's the Bond films and things like that.

Christopher Nolan

#56. I've had more people in my life take their lives than ... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.

Paul Westerberg

#57. The broader and higher aspects of life are international ... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.

Ameen Rihani

#58. What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page that's really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.

Henry Selick

#59. I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don't wanna hear happy albums ... and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.

David Bowie

#60. We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

Mick Cornett

#61. I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.

Jenna Fischer

#62. I tend to gravitate toward the more powerful roles. As opposed to the doe-eyed girl who bats her eyelashes and runs around in towels, you now what I mean? Because that kind of makes me want to vomit.

Julia Stiles

#63. I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.

Matthew Perry

#64. I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

Anne Carson

#65. I gravitate toward floral and graphic prints.

Brad Goreski

#66. I either play cops or criminals - I'm either on the right side of the law or the wrong side. I gravitate toward edgier material because it suits my nature. I find it fascinating to play. I'm just that kind of person.

Marg Helgenberger

#67. I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.

Alan Alda

#68. I think broken people gravitate toward one another, like our shattered pieces connect on a level that unscarred people never know.

M. Leighton

#69. There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

Jimmy Wales

#70. To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate

Ernest Holmes

#71. I gravitate towards monochromes. I always sort of either wear white or black or cream. I really like wearing colorful things as well, but I'm a sucker for cream-colored.

Margot Robbie

#72. Perhaps it was a tacit acknowledgement of her tendency to find danger, to gravitate towards self-destruction, but she'd been terrified of heights all her life.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#73. I tend to gravitate toward reporters who cover all aspects of the story: from personal aspects to the big picture that answer the 'so what' of a story.

James G. Stavridis

#74. I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

Joey Santiago

#75. I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque.

Anna Journey

#76. I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.

Aaron Paul

#77. I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to.

Daniel Woodrell

#78. And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people from all over the world who want to engage in these activities gravitate to. They're going now to places like Syria or Yemen Libya, elsewhere.

Mohsin Hamid

#79. I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who'd rather avoid them.

Rachel Hartman

#80. For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them ... I kind of realized on '50/ 50' why I liked these blending of tones, because I think it's kind of what life is like: funny one minute, sad the next, scary the next.

Jonathan Levine

#81. You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems.

Helen Fisher

#82. The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

Beck

#83. Never think of the consequences of failing for you will always think of a negative result. Think only positive thoughts and your mind will gravitate towards those thoughts!

Michael Jordan

#84. I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.

Joey Santiago

#85. No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

James Allen

#86. When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

Christopher Alexander

#87. Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.

Campbell Scott

#88. I definitely gravitate towards things like vegetables, chicken, brown rice, but I don't deprive myself of anything. If I want a Sprinkles cupcake, I'm having a Sprinkles cupcake. But I'm not going to have one every day ... you just have to have a sensible outlook on all of it.

Abigail Spencer

#89. Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.

Peter L. Berger

#90. If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them.

Jonathan Haidt

#91. Cooling bodies gravitate and heat as they gravitate-heating bodies radiate, and cool as they radiate.

Walter Russell

#92. I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

Stephan Jenkins

#93. Maybe we women gravitate toward comedy because it is a socially acceptable way to break rules and a release from our daily life.

Tina Fey

#94. I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process.

Susan Sarandon

#95. I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

Zooey Deschanel

#96. Preachers' kids who gravitate toward ministry are commodities. I hire all I can. We see church differently than everybody else.

Andy Stanley

#97. I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.

Gail Carriger

#98. I gravitate towards roles where women find strength in very difficult, uncompromising situations but maintain clarity in mind, discipline at heart, and a certain strength in spirit.

Michelle Yeoh

#99. People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.

John Searles

#100. I naturally gravitate to darker characters. Gotham. Batman's suit. It's all dark; he's very interesting. It all comes from his builds and guts.

David Finch