Quotes and Sayings About Seductive
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.
-- Andrew Garfield -
It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.
-- Anna Kournikova -
Technology is very seductive, and it is certainly changing the way things are designed and made and taught. The problem is when technology has seduced you away from thinking about things as deeply as you should.
-- Arthur Ganson -
I think women should be seductive, not triste. Theres enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.
-- Azzedine Alaia -
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.
-- Bell Hooks -
If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power, he must possess wisdom. He becomes converted to the seductive thesis that election to public office endows the official with both power and wisdom. At this point, he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient.
-- Ben Moreell -
But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body
-- Bernhard Schlink -
Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.
-- Brené Brown -
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.
-- Carol Anshaw -
Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style both seductive and sly. Any one of Doug Watson's first collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite, can mend a broken world.
-- Christine Schutt -
Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.
-- Colin Farrell -
Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.
-- Dave Hickey -
Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.
-- David Brin -
...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.
-- David Foster Wallace -
There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.
-- Donald Antrim -
You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.
-- Donatella Versace -
Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.
-- Donna Mills -
It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
-- E. B. White -
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs -
Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess.
-- Elizabeth Hoyt -
My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.
-- Emily Watson -
The first issue of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a wonderful door to a seductive new world. Let's all go in!
-- Fábio Moon -
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
-- Georg Simmel -
I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.
-- George F. Kennan -
Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.
-- Gertrude Himmelfarb -
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
-- Glenn Close -
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
-- Gunter Grass -
Clothes should never be decoration....whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more everything.
-- Haider Ackermann
