Quotes About Compelling

He holds him with his glittering eye—The Wedding Guest stood still,And listens like a three years' child:The Mariner hath his will.

I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

We can become more perceptive, more in charge of our own reality, as loneliness makes life compelling. Vitally, loneliness assures us that our life is our own.

No one but a preaching clergyman has, in these realms, the power of compelling an audience to sit silent and be tormented.

You have provided me with a source of the most compelling and pure inspiration that is to be found among human things, for nothing… has such power to keep our gaze fixed ever more intensely upon god, than friendship for the friends of god.

Expand your vocabulary to include accurate, beautiful, sensual, inspiring, thought-provoking, mysterious, and compelling words—words that express the beauty of your marvelous spirit.

SOPHOCLES (born ca. 496 B.C., died after 413) was one of the three major authors of Greek tragedy. Of his 123 plays, only seven survive in full. Antigone, written and first performed in the late 440s B.C., is among his most often revived plays; its strong roles, and its conflict between individual morality (championed by a brave young woman) and the overbearing political needs of the state, have never lost their compelling interest through the generations.

people don't pay attention to boring things

The trick for business professionals, and for educators, is to present bodies of information so compelling that the audience does this (encoding) on their own, spontaneously engaging in deep and elaborate encoding.

Here was an absolutely compelling road sign. Stay on the road of objective truth - there is objective being and objective value. Stay on the road. There is Truth. There is a Point and Purpose and Essence to it all. Keep searching. You will find it.

There is, as yet, no Act of Parliament compelling a bona fide traveler to read. If you wish him to read, you must make reading pleasant. You must give him short views, and clear sentences.

Yesterday in the restaurant, she'd seen his sex appeal and roughness. At her house, she'd seen his danger. This morning, at the river, she'd seen his beauty and teasing, and again that danger. Of all of them, the tenderness she saw now was the most compelling. And terrifying.

It's easy to make a reality show that's sensational but it's more challenging to make a reality show that's got a lot of heart and integrity and still keeps you enthralled and makes you want to keep watching.

If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll certainly like Lee Smolin's writing, and 'Time Reborn' is his latest nonfiction book, and it's an absolutely compelling read. It's worth the time.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

I'm not a big reality TV person, although recently someone got me into 90 Day Fiance,' which is pretty addictive.

I'm a force to be reckoned with.

People will buy hardware just to buy a single game if the game is really compelling.

I've gone after stuff that is short and highly appealing.

I am going out there working hard every day making sure people know that my vision is a compelling one for my country, that I have the experience and that I can win against Donald Trump.

'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism.