Affinity Quotes

You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.

It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

There can be little liking where there is no likeness.

I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.

My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on.

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.

We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now.

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

I never do the dishes, because my husband has an affinity for it. And I'm also not allowed to touch the coffeemaker.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

Heaven? I don't have an affinity with that place.

There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work,
but it is not easy to define what this affinity is,
and on that question many judge quite wrongly.

Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.

Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.

I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own.