Source: Bitter Blood
“People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.”
Los Angeles Times (October 31,1999)
Context: People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused. I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you fucking options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't fucking call.
“If you're going to insist on being reasonable, I'm going to stop hanging with you.”
Source: Lover Unbound
"The Lees of Happiness"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Context: It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two floating logs they met in a head-on rush, caught, and sped along together.
“I’m not sure if dying free is as attractive when it stops being rhetorical.”
Source: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 25 (p. 264)
“The charm of bad girl attracts. Always.”
Original: (it) Il fascino della ragazzaccia attrae. Sempre.
“The charm of bad girl attracts. Always.”
Original: Il fascino della ragazzaccia attrae. Sempre.
Source: prevale.net
“Charm is the power to attract at any age.”
Original: Il fascino è il potere di attrarre a qualsiasi età.
Source: prevale.net
On a child doing homework near the family’s television set, in Roger’s Version (1986)
“I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.”
Source: Gustave Moreau (1972) by Jean Paladilhe and Josbe Pierre - transl. Bettina Wadia; Praeger, New York, 1972, p. 32
Context: I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art.
