Universal Appeal Quotes

#1. I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

Om Puri

#2. Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

Ford Madox Ford

#3. People are drawn to the spiritual. It has a universal appeal.

Kathleen Battle

#4. Christmas has a certain universal appeal that gives it meaning well beyond a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christians have a special duty to experience its sacred and profound spiritual significance and non-Christians have a duty to treat the day with special respect.

Michael Josephson

#5. That for me is what intrigues me the most about feature films. It's not like the little kind of esoteric projects that you and your friends get but how do you make something that has a universal appeal. Those are the movies that intrigue me the most.

Casey Neistat

#6. I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.

Natsuo Kirino

#7. It's interesting to see how people bring different things to them. I think it comes down to the universal appeal of the Holmes-Watson that they can keep being discovered in different ways.

Jude Law

#8. As writing is one of the desperate professions, it has universal appeal, especially for those not engaged in it.

W. H. Auden

#9. The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.

Christopher Buckley

#10. With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a "Third-World" story.

Marjane Satrapi

#11. Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

J.K. Rowling

#12. Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.

Adlai Stevenson I

#14. Nothing is more attractive than universal appeal. That is what makes androgyny the peacekeeping persuasion.

Bauvard

#15. The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us.

Tessa Jowell

#16. Vergil preferred to give a few touches, and to allow the imagination of his readers to fill out the picture: that is one reason for his almost universal appeal. He changes each of his readers into a poet or an artist.

Gilbert Highet

#17. When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone.

Kevin Hart

#21. Yellowstone, of all the national parks, is the wildest and most universal in its appeal... Daily new, always strange, ever full of change, it is Nature's wonder park. It is the most human and the most popular of all parks. -Yellowstone Park for Your Vacation (circa 1920s)

Susan Rugh

#22. I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.

Diane Warren

#23. Rather, the best clue is, of all things, the pity play. The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy. I first learned this when

Martha Stout

#24. In 1986, The Economist assembled a list of English terms that had become more or less universal. They were: airport, passport, hotel, telephone, bar, soda, cigarette, sport, golf, tennis, stop, O.K., weekend, jeans, know-how, sex appeal, and no problem.

Bill Bryson

#25. A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.

Louise Wilder

#26. It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

Clive Bell

#27. Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Robert A. Heinlein

#28. The appeal of romance is love. And that's universal.

Penny Jordan

#29. I'd love to have Michael Jackson [in my show] because he's black and white. So he would appeal to a universal demographic.

George Lopez

#30. I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.

John McCormack

#31. The thirst for vengeance did not wait for Islam to appear in the world, and the appeal to the law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is universal.

Tzvetan Todorov

#32. To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.

Marianne Williamson

#33. Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal.

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