None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity fully fledged mutual acceptance full-blown mutual flourishing and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction personal adoration and moral admiration that is hard to find.

Abstraction is real probably more real than nature.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by man.

I think the destructive vicious negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct everything in nature is coloured.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long a quieter voice seems attractive.

I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer uploading bad music for hours when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

I think more than writers the major influences on me have been European movies jazz and Abstract Expressionism.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

Obviously I'm attracted to heavier movies.

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre this type of story and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

I can write all the way through the morning when my mind is clear and there are no distractions.

I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.

To be intimate with a married man when my own father cheated on my mother is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

Opposites may attract but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.

I know that campaigns can seem small and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message believe me - so am I.

A system of capitalism presumes sound money not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings not credit creation by a central bank.

Money is usually attracted not pursued.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.