What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday.
What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them.
Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.
It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.
I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.
A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.
If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
It's fun to see a lot of the crowd become embarrassed. You're kind of watching them almost wanting to not watch the screen, but they have to because it's so compelling!
The Sunlight on the Garden The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold, When all is told We cannot beg for pardon. Our freedom as free lances Advances towards its end; The earth compels, upon i...
We must be so heavenly minded that we are compelled to be of earthly good!
I can only tell you that I've done this thing, and was compelled, somehow, to do so.
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
