I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature.
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
It's incredible to be working with Mr Armani and his team at Emporio Armani. I feel an affinity to the brand ethos and have been a long time admirer of their designs.
I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.
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.
My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.
Death. . . obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.
Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
Undoubtedly. . . there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.
I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.
Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.
I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.
The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.
You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.
I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own.
I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.