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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. -- Joseph Conrad
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. -- Francis Quarles
I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time. -- Angela Cartwright
There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option. -- Alison Sweeney
Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room -- Aftab Alam
I find podcasting an enticing space. -- Jason Calacanis
There was something amazingly enticing about programming. -- Vint Cerf
There was something amazingly enticing about programming. -- Vint Cerf
I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time. -- Lee Bermejo
I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room. -- Brendan I. Koerner
It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there. -- Patrick Fugit
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. -- Margaret Laurence
While some people may think being a chef only entails making enticing dishes and pushing the culinary boundaries, being a part of the food industry involves much more. -- Marcus Samuelsson
An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment. -- Sigmund Freud
The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world. -- Elizabeth Hand
While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to include enticing details and skip all the rest. -- Jane Cleland
I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be. -- Arjuna Ardagh
It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much when everyone else is essentially doing the same thing on MySpace, or wherever. -- Trent Reznor
If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally. -- Landon Donovan
I think so many young girls get caught up in the challenge of being with somebody who's dangerous, who's bad, who's enticing, who's all of those things, and you forget what it's like to enjoy simple love. -- Nikki Reed
They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore. -- Tahereh Mafi
Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life. -- Louis Kronenberger
It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through. -- Miranda Otto
My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that. -- Julia Cameron
If you make the bad guy enticing and dangerous, that's where the excitement of playing the role really kicks in. I don't get to do that in my normal day-to-day life. Life is too taxing to go to those dark places. -- Tony Vincent
My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.' -- Jerry Saltz
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. -- Billy Collins
As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in performances of imparting, eliciting, involving, or enticing, and is then thought about some more until the process can begin again -- Lee S Shulman
So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you. -- Rich Sommer
I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to look great visually, to be beguiling and enticing, but I think that what really defines a great cinematographer is one who loves story. -- Seamus McGarvey
You're invited to tons of parties, and you'll wear these shoes and that dress, and it can be enticing, but I think it also sucks you dry. If you do it a little, sure, it's fun, but too much and you start to lose your footing. -- Maggie Gyllenhaal
I find that a lot of actors who are good and open to challenges have lived a full life. When you walk into an audition, you have more to say for yourself because you come from the real world. It's more enticing for directors, I think. -- Idris Elba
A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive, and beautiful. There's no way to control how it will be used, how it will be read, and that's part of the excitement of it. -- Budd Hopkins
I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family. -- Gerard Butler
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it. -- Dag Hammarskjold
The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors, never menaces or frightens children, plays gently with other dogs, won't jump on the UPS guy, never rolls in gross things, eats only the appropriate food at the right time, and never chews anything not meant for him. This dog does not exist. -- Jon Katz
I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was. The most beautiful landscapes I had seen in Asia were Sri Lanka and Bali. -- Stefan Sagmeister
A veiled Mind is more enticing than all the nude men lining up the Seine, during Summer. -- AainaA-Ridtz
Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow. -- Karl Marlantes
That in itself made her a little intriguing and enticing. A woman who doesn't know her own potential for passion -- Kailin Gow
The enticing allure of Nashville is that there is always something new coming down the pike. Put this record on and you'll hear footsteps. -- Tom T. Hall
No one had ever called her wild before. She wanted to be wild now, for him. Wild seemed more enticing then a bowl of berries. -- Shannon Hale
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed. -- Franz Grillparzer
However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance? -- Dorothy L. Sayers
No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves. -- Thomas S. Monson
He smells of secondhand cigar smoke and a brew of perfumes from his bachelor party, but it would be enticing foreplay to shower him fresh before sullying him anew. -- Valentine Glass
Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle. -- Louis Pullig De Gouy
The cover of a book is akin to the door of a home; if it is welcoming and enticing, it beckons you and your visit will be all the more pleasurable and desirable. -- J.E. Rogers
Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep's clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties. -- Ezra Taft Benson

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