Compelling Quotes
I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.
One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.
I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.
I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.
The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.
The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.
The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.
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.
President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.
Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.
Ken & Mark weave a simple, compelling tale that contains profound truths. If only we all knew The Secret.
I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.
There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.
The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.
The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.
With Women, Chloe Caldwell is to Millennials what Anais Nin was to previous generations–a voice that is raw, intimate, thoughtful, compelling. Above all, heartbreakingly real.
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.
Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.
The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
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.
The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.
Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.
As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticeable.
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.
What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.