Seductive Quotes

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
Mason Cooley

Melancholy, Ecstasy

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Paul Cezanne

Art, Artist, Himself

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.
Colin Farrell

Beauty, Themselves, Whether

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Robert Redford

Politics, Art, Soul

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?
Susan Orlean

Good, Mean, Why

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
George Ball

Liar, Nostalgia

But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.
Sienna Miller

Nice, Character, Important

There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Music, Girl, Album

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
Queen Victoria

Great, Against, Dangerous

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.
Bell Hooks

Sleep, Trying, Quality

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
Georg Simmel

Time, Men, Gossip

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Mother, Girl, Pretty

Once you are successful, there's a very seductive rhythm at work that keeps you wanting to outdo yourself. By the end of 'Spirit' I felt like I didn't want to get into that trap. It almost makes you cartoon-like.
Jewel

Work, Successful, Yourself

I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
Omar Sharif

Sex, Seem, Seduce

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.
Judith Wright

Easy, Spirit, Culture

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.
Jaron Lanier

Design, Democracy, Problem

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
Kathryn Bigelow

Violence, Context, Cinematic

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.
Donna Mills

Happy, Important, Dark

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.
Anna Kournikova

True, Play, Try

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.
John Sexton

Making, Seen, Image

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
Gunter Grass

Words, Found, Nonsense

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
John Morley

Dangerous, Literature, Deceiving

When somebody is enthusiastic about a job opportunity - but gives off the feeling that this is not the only one they have on the table - they become more seductive in the employer's eyes. You become more desirable because it shows that you're making a conscious and thoughtful decision for the right reasons.
Peter Guber

Job, Feeling, Decision

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
Glenn Close

Genius, Passionate, Driven

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.
Emily Watson

Husband, Nothing, Film

I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.
Omar Sharif

Women, Sex, Tell

I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
Patrick Marber

Pain, Sometimes, Moral

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.
Gertrude Himmelfarb

Success, Nothing, Assurance

Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.
Andrew Garfield

Money, Movies, Bad

The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance.
Kenneth Noland

Done, Country, Living

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