quotes about Affinity
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I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.
-- Erika Slezak -
You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart.
-- George Rodger -
It is a great bond to dislike the same things.
-- George Santayana -
The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed.
-- George Santayana -
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
-- Gloria Estefan -
In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.
-- Guillaume Canet -
I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.
-- Hugo Weaving -
Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity.
-- Jean Sibelius -
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I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.
-- Jennifer Aniston -
I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.
-- Joey Santiago -
I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.
-- Kidada Jones -
You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
-- Liev Schreiber -
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Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.
-- Louis Agassiz -
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
-- Louis KahnSource : ":The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building:Redefining the Practice of Sustainability". Book by Bill Reed (p. 216), October 11, 2011.
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We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now.
-- Lydia DavisSource : Lydia Davis (2014). “Almost No Memory: Stories”, p.192, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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I've always had an affinity for growing things.
-- Maynard James Keenan -
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The night was a time for ***** affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.
-- Patricia Highsmith -
Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on.
-- Phil Pringle -
Heaven? I don't have an affinity with that place.
-- SebastiAn -
I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.
-- Tracy LettsSource : Tracy Letts (2010). “August”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com
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It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.
-- John Burnham SchwartzSource : "Dustin Hoffman and me" by John Burnham Schwartz, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.
