Charm Quotations | Page 2

An Oscar is not a charm that's going to keep bad things from happening to you anymore than it's a curse that's going to guarantee them. I don't think there's anything about getting an Oscar that should make you more vulnerable to having your career tank.

I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.

Very, very few adults possess so much charm that they can long be supported by another adult based on that attribute alone.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them

The thing that struck me most after first viewing 'The Sessions' was the charm of Mark O'Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story.

Actually, I think Rudy has more charm than Eliot.

Austin always had that dumb old hat on. I always wished he'd get a new one, but he kept the old one. I don't know if it was a good luck charm or what.

Although they aren't unique like the Carnegie building and they don't have the charm of the Carnegie, they are newer and they have falling rental rates.

Yet the Senator says nothing about these women losing their charm. They have got to retain their charm and delicacy and work in foundries.

This country is full of great courses, many of which are not promoted, but are superb, ... And, there are quite a few courses under construction. That is a real attraction for visitors, and what adds to the charm of the country.

This is about a four-hour exposure to get all of this. That's part of the charm of this. They're very magical in their own quiet way.

You may seek it with thimbles - and seek it with care; You may hunt it with forks and hope; You may threaten its life with a railway-share; You may charm it with smiles and soap

incredible charm offensive ... (which) is starting to show dividends.

I like the charm and the life in the Fan - the street theater,

I loved this man. Yes, I was young, but it was my choice. I was romanced, I had Mister Charm all over me, and it was very hard to say no.

Everybody says the third time is the charm. Hopefully that charm will help us.

You tried to charm them and fake them out, ... They saw you lie to them. I saw you lie. It was an insult to the court and to the system.

It encourages young people not to get into addiction. They'll find that bars and restaurants are smoke free. They'll have to hang around in the cold. That will lose its charm fast.

If you met him, you would never forget him. He had charm - just a teddy bear.

In the next five years, there is going to be a big visual difference in downtown, we believe. We want to return the charm to downtown Warren. We want to get Warren back to where we all remember it.

But I'm not sure the charm of that orange-crate-label art style isn't diminished when it's turned into anime. Something a little creepy about this machine-made 21st century version. I keep waiting for her to peel back that improbably toothy grin to reveal the malevolent robot beneath.

He's exceptionally qualified as a manager. His charm and force of personality cause people to do what he wants. It just happens.

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste.

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.

I put in my order and Neptune came through for us. There?s a charm and a mystique about Surf-O-Rama that we always get waves.

charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

George Bush's charm offensive did work. It was aimed at governments and he did well at that level - that is important because foreign policy is decided by governments, not by public opinion. He did talk up the EU and they did shift slightly on Iran and the Middle East.

I'm pretty klutzy and I've always been, so I have to own up to it. It's part of my charm!

The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you...

They kept the integrity and charm of the old stadium and added a lot of fan amenities.

I remember the early meetings leading up to the Good Friday Agreement and the slightly bemused astonishment of all and sundry as, by a mixture of determination, charm and sheer life force, she bowled everyone over,

Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil.

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.

And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die

The great charm of recruiting as subject matter is that we don't know. We don't know what is going to happen.

This is a huge coup for E! and demonstrates how committed we are about being the dominant entertainment authority. Not only will we benefit immensely from Ryan's extraordinary ability as a broadcaster, his crystal clear vision of our brand will make him an extremely valuable supplier of original programming. His talent, popularity and easygoing on-screen charm have earned him millions of fans who will follow him to E! He is the very best at what he does.

You could tell immediately there was a great history to this guy, as revealed in the pilot. He has a sense of confidence about how things will turn out. He has great charm and great wit and is incredibly intelligent and meticulous. Nothing escapes him.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

It's very colorful with many different colors juxtaposed. That is part of the charm of the design. Every color goes with every color.

It's all part of the charm of the show. Just when you think you've seen it all and no one crazy is going to walk through the door, in walks someone even more outrageous and the judges put them through.

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.

We lost a lot of beautiful buildings to urban renewal, ... The uniqueness of these buildings is the character and charm of the community. They'll never build factories like that again.

It's a very cool place. It's a great place to shoot, there's character and charm to it.

Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

He paid a lot of dues to get where he is, and now there are a lot of doors open to him. The one he has chosen to walk through throws down a gauntlet. He has the good luck, the charm and the guts to do what he wants, and this film is what he chose to do.

Being selected to guide this historic property through its next phase of development is an honor and an exciting opportunity. Our goal is to develop a project that honors the historical significance and small-town charm of Young's Farm and the surrounding area.

Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.

The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.

There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.

There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.

If you can charm everyone it means you don't care about anyone in particular.

Oakmont possesses all the charm of a sock to the head.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

This is Buffalo, New York. It's like. Scranton without the charm.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there were no incorruptibles. It was only a question of price.

Do not let the word tripe deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.

O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.

[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.

I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

All the charm of all the Muses/ often flowering in a lonely word.

Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words

Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

I didn't get the charm gene.

Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.

The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.

The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.

i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

Real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm.

I am flippant. That's one of my charms.

Musick has charms to soothe a savage breast

The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

The secret of charm is bullshit.

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those things that just charms the socks off of people.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

You can't rob a bank on charm and personality,