Top 100 Quotes About Appeal
#1. She's American. She shows her emotions, doesn't hide them and tell you what you want to hear. She behaves genuinely and impulsively. That is part of her appeal.
Annie Ward
#2. I think great songs appeal to people at any age. Kids love the Beatles, too. Kids love Tom T. Hall. Of course, Tom T. wrote some things that were specifically for kids. But I think kids recognize quality more than they get credit for sometimes.
Jason Isbell
#3. Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
Pankaj Mishra
#4. Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.
Paul Mellon
#5. I want to make big movies that appeal to a lot of people. That's satisfying to me.
Steve Antin
#6. The Lord is a Father, the most tender and best of fathers. He cannot fail to be moved when His children appeal to Him.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#7. God's will usually seemed to coincide with her father's, and against this partnership there was no hope of appeal.
Anya Seton
#8. I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.
Steve Albini
#9. The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.
A.P. Herbert
#10. Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they think they don't understand it. Actually they do. It's the most primitive form of appeal.
Robert Helpmann
#11. When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.
Hannah Arendt
#12. Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Quentin Crisp
#13. The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#14. In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.
Clint Eastwood
#15. Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.
Jamie Johnson
#16. When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them
Franklin P. Adams
#17. I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
#18. The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely because of compulsory education.
Osho
#19. I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump's business plan is a disaster in the making.
Michael Bloomberg
#20. All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself
Aleister Crowley
#21. Only so you can appeal to your God and pray Him to support and bless your courage, your work, your perseverance, your strength, your resolution, and with all these your claim on life.
Adolf Hitler
#23. I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
Omar Sharif
#24. The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
Alan Bennett
#25. I saw a charity appeal in the Guardian the other day, and it read "Little Zuki has to walk 13 miles a day just to fetch water". And I couldn't help thinking, she should move.
Jimmy Carr
#26. If you want to appeal to someone's ego, treat them as the most important person you have ever met. If you want to appeal to someone's soul, approach and interact with them in total love and acceptance.
Frank Healy
#27. Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.
John Galt
#28. Time and again, a student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worthwhile to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests, saying that if the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it.
Alma Gluck
#29. The public is despotic in its temper; it is capable of denying common justice when too strenuously demanded as a right; but quite as frequently it awards more than justice, when the appeal is made, as despots love to have it made, entirely to its generosity.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#30. The desperate need to belong is perhaps never as great as during adolescence. Advertisers seek to communicate with teenagers by frequently using that powerful appeal.
Gad Saad
#31. There is a common ground upon which all sincere votaries of truth may meet, exchanging with each other the language of Flamsteed's appeal to Newton, "The works of the Eternal Providence will be better understood through your labors and mine.
George Boole
#32. To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and devastation of the resources of nature, is a piece of atavistic nonsense.
Norman Lamm
#33. Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.
Walt Disney
#34. What makes them classics? Artful storytelling, sure, but beyond the storytelling, classics have enduring appeal mostly because we remember the experiences we had while reading them; we remember not the art but the impact. When
Donald Maass
#35. Obviously, I never had to sketch anything out. To me, that was the appeal of working with clip art, working digitally. You make it and it's done.
David Rees
#36. It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.
Kellan Lutz
#37. Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
Henri Bergson
#38. Mole in the darkness, making him tingle through and through with its very familiar appeal, even while yet he could not clearly remember what it was. He stopped dead in his tracks, his nose searching hither and thither in its efforts to recapture the fine filament, the telegraphic current,
Kenneth Grahame
#39. The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.
James Fallows
#40. The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world.
Enos Mills
#41. Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men.
Erich Von Stroheim
#42. The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.
Charles Sumner
#43. As Marilyn Ferguson observed, No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.
Stephen R. Covey
#44. Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end.
Eliot Coleman
#45. The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstable; Russia, impossible; Italy, absurd; Germany, rigid; Portugal, in decline. Holland, thought favorably disposed toward him, was dull. The United States of America, he decided, was a possibility.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#46. Although people often equate them, glamour is not the same as beauty, stylishness, luxury, celebrity, or sex appeal. It is not limited to fashion or film; nor is it intrinsically feminine. It is not a collection of aesthetic markers - a style, as fashion and design use the word.
Virginia Postrel
#47. I had a sudden understanding of tattooing's true appeal: It's
Troll-collecting for biker types.
Peter Trachtenberg
#48. To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#49. The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Israel Zangwill
#50. Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever.
Jeannette Walls
#51. Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.
Kate Mulgrew
#52. I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.
Mohsin Hamid
#53. Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.
Akiko Busch
#54. Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.
William Bernbach
#55. For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit ... We mean to appeal to their intellects ... and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists.
Frank Crowninshield
#56. One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#57. If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.
Nicole Holofcener
#58. The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.
Larry Gelbart
#59. What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#60. We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel.
David Zaslav
#61. My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.
Mike Berenstain
#62. Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
Ford Madox Ford
#63. People are drawn to the spiritual. It has a universal appeal.
Kathleen Battle
#64. I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
Dan Ariely
#65. Many people fail to see how modesty and sweetness of temper compound erotic appeal.
Sylvain Reynard
#66. For common instinct of our race declares
That body of itself exists: unless
This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not,
Naught will there be whereunto to appeal
On things occult when seeking aught to prove
By reasonings of mind.
Lucretius
#67. We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing - by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.
M.H. Abrams
#68. James Lovelock is one of the great thinkers of our time. His ideas and inventions have opened up new insights into our planet and the way it works, and the story behind them will appeal to a very wide audience. I am pleased to recommend this book.
Chris Rapley
#69. And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.
Joseph Conrad
#70. We've never had a giant circulation. And we've always been a magazine for writers and for sophisticated readers. We've never had to run stories that would appeal to a million people. And what you end up with is a kind of tradition that might have staying power - the cockroach after armageddon.
Lorin Stein
#72. Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing, dark characters, the ones where I don't understand their pain or their anguish, they are the characters that appeal to me.
John Logan
#73. Today, when you're marketing a brand, you can't try to appeal to everybody. You should speak to a group of people and create them as loyalists.
Barry Sternlicht
#74. If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls!
Roman Polanski
#75. Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#76. Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
Ioan Gruffudd
#77. Maybe it was ridiculous to go on a date with someone I'd barely spoken to and whose main appeal was that he was good-looking and he liked Wilco. I'd certainly done such things with men based on far less.
Cheryl Strayed
#78. When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
Nathan Sawaya
#79. Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.
Kenny Rogers
#80. On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#81. But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn't appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing.
John Flanagan
#82. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain.
Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
#83. Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.
Isaac D'Israeli
#84. The White Throne Judgment will be nothing like our modern court cases. At the White Throne, there will be a Judge but no jury, a prosecution but no defense, a sentence but no appeal.
David Jeremiah
#85. The prospect of being immortal doesn't excite me, but the prospect of being a materialistic idol for four years does appeal.
Marc Bolan
#86. Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
Nathan Myhrvold
#87. I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!
Hilary Putnam
#88. Bryan finds that appeals to character are effective for adults as well. His team was able to cut cheating in half with the same turn of phrase: instead of "Please don't cheat," they changed the appeal to "Please don't be a cheater." When
Adam M. Grant
#89. One of the head guys at Disney categorically said to me, 'We don't want to make children's films any more. We want to make films that are going to appeal to all quadrants.' Hence you have films like 'Shrek' and all the Pixar stuff, which is designed to suit everybody.
Gurinder Chadha
#90. No, I mean it. You don't look good."
"This from a guy who has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-
Cassandra Clare
#91. The tendency to believe vague statements designed to appeal to just about anyone is called the Forer effect, and psychologists point to this phenomenon to explain why people fall for pseudoscience like biorhythms, iridology, and phrenology, or mysticism like astrology, numerology, and tarot cards.
David McRaney
#92. I'm tired of demographic appeal being more important than talent. I want to fight against that.
Andy Kindler
#93. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
#94. But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
Michael Stipe
#95. Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C. Clarke
#96. Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?
Allison Anders
#97. And he's just plain odd. And what is your problem that you keep putting yourself in my way? (Geary)
She's feisty, Skotos. I can see the appeal. (ZT)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#98. John Barleycorn makes his appeal to weakness and failure, to weariness and exhaustion. He is the easy way out. And he is lying all the time. He offers false strength to the body, false elevation to the spirit, making things seem what they are not and vastly fairer than what they are.
Jack London
#99. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
Anne Bishop
#100. I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.
Tony Iommi
