Music has charms to sooth a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
Early in the morning I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time we were so naive. I wanted to charm her so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
Money's a horrid thing to follow but a charming thing to meet.
When I was 7 I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms we would sew them on frilly white socks and I sold them at school.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
I bear a charmed life.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study but as a relaxation from study to give our work the charm of a story-book yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
In my opinion I think sarcasm and humor in a song without turning it into a novelty song is really charming.
A woman has to be intelligent have charm a sense of humor and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
I live in literally the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth of course and looked for my own Prince Charming.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues but there is no need of parading them for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long and the great charm of all power is modesty.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.
Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.
Speaking of Twitter I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009 as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!