Compelling Quotes

Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

Some of the freshest, most compelling, and most soulful music I have heard recently. Bob Reynolds is an amazing musician, with something very exciting and original to say.

I think Spider-Man [film], the first one particularly, really figured out the formula of, "Oh, tell the story that they told in the comic. It was compelling. That's why it's iconic."

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.

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.

What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

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.

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones.

The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.

I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

I have to have an impact. That's what drives me to practice to make sure my words are clear and my stories are compelling. Right. Because it matters.

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and to reclaim our own inner voices!

Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will encounter any compelling messages.

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

Beautifully drawn, solid, compelling characters against a background so real and scary I left the lights on all night. It was great!

An absolute joy to read - it stimulates and engages. Westney is asking new questions not addressed elsewhere . . . and you will be drawn in by the author's inviting, yet quietly compelling style.

It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.

I truly believe that Yahoo! is one of the most compelling and dominant companies in the world.

The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.

... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care about what happens to them.

Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.

Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

We need to believe in a bright, compelling and sustainable future. Fear neither motivates people long-term nor brings out the best in them. Hope is a powerful motivator.

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.