Quotes of: Repel Keyword

It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark people are repelled by me: 'Oooh no! Too much sunlight.'

Geri Halliwell

Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.

Trent Zelazny

She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.

Breadcrumbs

I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.

Mika

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Nancy Astor

My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

Italo Calvino

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

Jamaica Kincaid

I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

Conor McPherson

She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness.

Barbara Ehrenreich

There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

Curtis Armstrong

I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true.

Claire Danes

...I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

Our Positivity repels the external negative energy and attract the positive energy.

Open The Windows: To the World aound You

There’s something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren’t.

Rachael Bermingham

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

Theodore C. Sorensen

Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that bores me is bad.

Lucien Carr

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.

Robert Towne

When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellant, but I could no longer find them.

Sri Aurobindo

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. But that has to do with content and also because the venues seem to be actively trying to repel people.

Shane Carruth

I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the acts and processes that keep us alive.

Mary Roach