Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Franck

We were attracted to it because we thought it was irreverent and poignant, and because of the obsolete technology.

Vin Diesel

There are a lot of films that explore sci-fi, ... What attracted me to the script is the fact that this film stands on its own. The characters and their relationships are interesting by themselves, without the creature element. In many ways it's a modern day 'Lord of the Flies.'

Victor Shum

There is certainly the possibility (of prices hitting USD70). The recent events have attracted speculators and oil has become a lot like an investment.

Victor Shum

There is certainly the possibility (of prices hitting 70 dollars). The recent events have attracted speculators and oil has become a lot like an investment.

Anthony Head

There is a warmth and generosity about Giles. If I met him in person I think that is what I would be attracted to. In terms of what I enjoy about playing him - the social ineptitude, and the intellect is great fun too as I don't have one!

Shia LaBeouf

Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing.

Travis Fimmel

I'm way more attracted to character stuff and darker roles. It's just my personality, I guess.

Tim Tebow

I've always been attracted to girls whose hearts are the biggest thing about them. People can be very sweet and kind to others who can do a lot for them. I want to find a girl who will be the same person to those who can't do anything for her in return.

Tim Tebow

Being attracted to someone plays a big part, but there's also so much more than that for me. It's about finding someone sweet and kind - and that has a servant's heart.

Mario DeRose

Whenever you can get a muni-bond at or over 6 percent, that's a very attractive rate.

Spencer Boldman

There are a lot of girls I've found attractive, but we could never date. If a girl can make me laugh, that's really attractive to me. I have a soft spot for southern girls who are sweet, like Taylor Swift!

Tom Rath

I've spoken with a few employers who have moved away from what has to be some of the least attractive language you could use about health risk to start talking about wellbeing.

Naokizuka

The outlook for new car sales is actually not so bad. Job and wage conditions are improving, and that's creating the environment for automakers to boost sales as soon as they roll out attractive vehicles.

David Milne

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

Dan Garrett

The other thing that was attractive to me is that he himself is a product of Catholic schools and has sent two children through Catholic schools.

Felix Lanters

The possibility of rising interest rates worries investors. For many companies there is a direct effect on their earnings and stocks can also become less attractive to bonds.

Jim Leech

We are pleased to continue our partnership with York Street Capital. This expanded capital commitment helps to fill the growing need for junior capital driven by strong buyout markets and record levels of private equity fundraising. Through York Street, we are providing broader financing alternatives to companies and equity sponsors at a time when flexible junior capital solutions are an important component in financing both buyouts and corporate expansion. We believe that York Street will continue to generate superior returns and provide attractive co-investment opportunities for Teachers' Private Capital.

Richard Thalheimer

We are maintaining intense efforts on good merchandising, marketing and the gauging of customers' tastes and demands. We are focused on introducing many new products that we believe will be attractive to our customers.

Douglas Duncan

We have seen a lot of pre-positioning. Boomers are buying that retirement home before they have sold their current residence.

Jim Webb

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare - for we baby boomers in a few years - that everything has to be on the table.

Robert Kiyosaki

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

Nancy Gibbs

If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.

J. Taylor

Eons' role is to see if we can shape a new era of power and fulfillment and value at every stage of life, starting at 50. I don't think there's very much offered out there in terms of being inspirational or challenging to these boomers and seniors with a lot more life to live.

Janet Watermeier

It's sunny. We have no income tax. I think a lot of boomers will stay put and get second and third homes, and we're a candidate for that.

Dan Owens

It's the new economic development. This freight train is just a few steps from our doorstep now. The oldest boomers (this week) will be turning 60. That's the tip of the iceberg. As more and more boomers get into their 60s, the market will just be exploding.

Debbie Miller

This is not your father's Oldsmobile. It's much trendier and more sophisticated. The boomers don't want to live a stodgy life. They want activity. They want to be closer to theaters, restaurants.

Brian Smith

We want to prove we can compete in the top half of the Premiership, and that challenge continues on Sunday afternoon,

Darryl Sutter

When you're young like that, you just have to stick to those things that you do really, really well. With a player like that, it's never a mistake or a flaw in his game, it's just about how he harnesses it and challenges it.

Mark Tauscher

We were a real experienced, old team, everyone was a senior, and he stepped in and never was intimidated. Brooks, when he has a challenge in front of him, he usually comes through. He's a winner.

Alan Shepard

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

Alan Kay

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

Jim Gray

We have people that do scorekeeping and a challenge line, if one team wants to challenge another team to do something else. There are also runners going all over town to pick up food. There are a lot of opportunities.

Carrie Johnson

The fact that no one has really challenged eBay is a reflection of its market strength but also the fact that it scores well on customer satisfaction.

Ben Jackson

The reality is, we're homeless right now. This wasn't the challenge we were looking for at this point in our lives. But I can't tell you how much it's meant to see the love that people have shown.

I. Stone

The real issue, problem and challenge is city of New Orleans.

Art Hogan

We've sort of gotten through the meat of earnings season, and we're going to start focusing on the state of the economy.

Tracy Eichler

There are a lot of cross-currents in the market. We're still a market that's torn between (concern about) earnings and interest rates.

Louis Gerstner

This was a solid quarter, with earnings per share up 20 percent and an acceleration of revenue growth relative to the first half of the year,

Karen Abbott

I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, 'If the Everleighs doesn't sell, I'm finished with writing forever.' I was going to get an office job.

Nick Hanauer

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things.

Gordon Nixon

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

Jim Roche

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

Steve Previs

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

Chuck Hill

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

David Boreanaz

The potential for their personal lives entering in their professional lives is dynamic.

Claudia Coles

We're seeing an increase of producers entering into the raw milk market.

Louis Armstrong

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Bible Bible

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Jon Fredrikson

We're gaining traction in the U.S. market. Wine is entering the mainstream of American life for the first time.

Dennis Miller

Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

Isabella Rossellini

When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder.

Rick Perlstein

I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better recognize the vastness of the social universe - for there are so, so many worlds that are not your own.

Jessica Jackson

Right now, entering the work force seems more plausible and rewarding for me.

Dave Barry

In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up.

Dave Barry

I've been checking with people back in South Florida to see if Hurricane Dennis is going to whack my house, and the consensus of the experts seems to be: No, it will not, unless it does, in which case, yes. So I'm feeling really calm over here in London.

David Talbot

While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

Mike Schnur

We did nothing differently this week than we did last week. But as they get further away from the Florida trip, they're less tired.

John Anderson

We're not going to play differently because it's Florida State. We're going to be a team that's going to steal; we're going to put runners in motion.

Carl Hiaasen

Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

Bill Frist

In the wake of this disaster, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida should know that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need,.

Craig Fugate

Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.

Helen Pitts

When we got her down to Florida and started training her, it didn't look like she'd lost that much.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

M. Wolfe

We have never had prices so high and increase so quickly.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Alan Meeder

When you say you get 130 or 140 high school kids together, people say you must be insane.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

John Freeman

The real issue is how high does that threshold need to be.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Stephen Colletti

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

David Schwimmer

A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.

Lori Frantz

We're in a location where we can do those kind of things.

Todd Jenkins

Most of us don't have cars. Location is important.

Brian Glass

She was awesome. She had location on all of her pitches and was just outstanding.

Arthur Phillips

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

Ken Thompson

The place we moved from is kind of an older location downtown.

Christopher Smith

Police responded to that location -- found, or sighted, the vehicle that was used in the robbery.

David Strow

Because of the location of this property, there will not be any unobstructed, safe views for members of the public.

Sandy Jones

Frankly, we look for a new location each time this happens.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Al Crellin

Ultimately, we only need one operations center, but for now we will maintain two.

David Heymann

We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time.

Eli Broad

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

Deng Xiaoping

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Tim McKee

We would rather not maintain the new stadium if we didn't have to.

David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

Dick Cheney

We're going to maintain our optimistic pro-growth pro-entrepreneur pro-jobs strategy in Washington, D.C.,

Katrina Kaif

I'm here to work.. not to like or dislike people. Neither am I here to win a Miss Congeniality competition. I maintain professional relations with my co-stars.

Jared Bernstein

Ultimately unemployment will peak somewhere around 6.2 or 6.3 percent,

Brian McInerney

We're running out of snow for the watershed. This will probably be the peak they see this year, but there's no guarantee.

Moon Unit Zappa

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.

Jim Skipper

But at the peak of traffic, you can't run that stop sign or you will get killed,

Michael Mosley

'Scrubs' has always had a very loyal fan base. When it started out, it was an explosion because it was after 'Friends,' but I think there have been times where it has peaked and valleyed.

Jeff VandeLoo

We've been pretty consistent. We've played pretty well all year without having a lot of peaks and valleys, which has been encouraging.

Dustin Riley

This weekend will tell us if we peaked at the right time or not.

Scott McCloud

Typically, you're going to set your peak in August," ()

Richard Veerman

We have not yet reached the peak of this epidemic.

Carol Shields

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

Charles W. Pickering

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charles Dickens

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Brian Eno

Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.

Dhirubhai Ambani

We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

Ed Comeau

We did have some quality shots and he made some saves.

Jane Austen

my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be...

Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.