Engaging Quotes

• The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Writing
  • Two
  • Familiar

• I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Information
  • Conversation
  • Valuable

• Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Most
  • Scotland
  • Engaging

• I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • People
  • Path
  • Recovery

• There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • War
  • Calamity
  • Engaging

• Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Cooking
  • Cleaning
  • Aspect

• Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • Reason

• You watch the interview afterwards, and they didn't really say much, but it's interesting, funny, and engaging. Whereas I sit there and look a little bit too serious, and as soon as that happens then you're uncomfortable and you don't want to watch.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Interesting
  • Funny
  • Serious

• By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.

  

  Billy Lawrence
  • Fans
  • Minutes
  • Lifelong

• I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • Song
  • Story
  • Imagining

• It's going to drive more like a passenger car than the Tribute. And with the 244 horsepower, the CX-7 will be for anyone looking for an engaging driving experience.

  

  Jeremy Barnes A Hawk and a Hacksaw
  • Car
  • Driving
  • Looking

• Young people have so many emotions growing up. If you don't feel accepted, you start sneaking around and engaging in dangerous practices.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Emotions
  • Young People
  • Engaging

• Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Prove
  • Landscape
  • Narrative

• The question of how people orient around religion differently, or interact with one another, whether that be based on conflict or cooperation, will be one of the most engaging questions of the 21st century.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Question
  • Religion
  • Cooperation

• . . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

  

  Erik Larson
  • Impossible
  • Sorrow
  • Allotments

• Most bloggers who rise above the clutter are quite often prolific -they work hard, not just writing content but networking, engaging in Social Media and more.

  

  Darren Rowse
  • Writing
  • Social
  • Clutter

• Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were not as engaging to my heart as a frozen icicled craggy way angered over by strong winds that never take the iron trumpets from their lips.

  

  William Alfred Quayle
  • Strong
  • Winter
  • Frozen

• When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Giving
  • Energy

• ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats' stimulus proposals could make the group - and its lesser known but even more radical ideological allies - eligible for upward of $5 billion in new public cash.

  

  Michelle Malkin
  • Community
  • Immigration
  • Groups

• I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Opinion
  • Kitten
  • Persian

• The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Desire
  • Competition
  • Liberty

• Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Criticism
  • Writer
  • Theory

• I just like the process of taking something written on a sheet of paper and giving it life and shape. I like the collaborative process of filmmaking, which is all simply to say that I love my work and I would continue to look for things that have the potential to be engaging and successful.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Successful

• I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.

  

  Paul Downs Colaizzo
  • People
  • Speak
  • Theater

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