Quotes About Magnetism

The remarkable Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell worked out in the early 1860s that light was an interaction between electricity and magnetism. And this meant that in principle, you could have an electric wave creating a magnetic wave, creating an electric wave and so on, hauling itself through empty space by its own bootstraps without any material medium required – it is the electromagnetic field that acts as the material.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?

And those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me. I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

for iron of itself draws a man thereto.

Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin

Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow.

A man had no right to be this fiercely sexual without even trying.

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

When you're shiny, everyone wants to stand next to you.

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don't. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

Smell is something that attracts me instantly. So if the guy smells nice, there is an instant attraction.

The existence of everything around me was overturned by her solid presence. I couldn't see a thing other than my girl---magnetizing me with her absolute, authoritative pull!

Whenever they met, the air crackled and sparks flew in the sky.

What drew her into O'Riley's like a bee to honey was the six-foot, broad-shouldered, dark eyes, dark smile of Finn O'Riley himself.

Someone smells good, it automatically makes them more attractive.

And without the work connection, the human ties released, like magnets losing their attraction.

A magnetized piece of iron will lift about twelve times its own weight. But if you demagnetize this same piece of iron, it will not lift even a feather.

A usted cómo le gustan las mujeres, Daniel? —No sé yo mucho de mujeres, la verdad. —Saber no sabe nadie, ni Freud, ni ellas mismas, pero esto es como la electricidad, no hace falta saber cómo funciona para picarse los dedos. Hala, cuente. ¿Cómo le gustan?

It was so incredible meeting Lady Gaga. I mean I'm gaga for Gaga, literally. We kind of just each flew to each other like magnets after the ceremony ended and we were both just crying and hugging.

A physicist on his way to lunch in the cafeteria was like a magnet rolling past iron filings.

Our skins reach outward, like magnets, long deprived of their opposite charge.