Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig McCracken

Now I did do later drawings where I tried putting fingers on them but it never looked right to me they weren't as appealing as that first drawing." ()

Casey Wilson

The more money you spend, the more you need to make back, and the more pressure there is to appeal to everyone - which to the studio means that the specificity and uniqueness must be watered down. But I think mass audiences like things that are more specific and tend to have a voice, like 'Napoleon Dynamite' or 'Superbad.'

Mariella Frostrup

The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash.

Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and now Compaq are all refining product and promotional efforts to appeal to small businesses, with the Internet and direct contact playing an increasingly important role.

Despite the growing selection of games on the operators' portals, consumers still are not finding games that appeal to them and are complaining that prices are too high. Faster networks and devices with larger screens will help improve the discovery process, operators and games publishers must do a much better job of marketing and merchandising mobile gaming content.

There's a tremendous profit margin on the tchotchkes they're selling and I understand the appeal of that. But the most valuable thing that Tiffany has is their brand name. You can't be everything to everybody.

Major Owens

There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.

Patrick Stewart

There's always an appeal to working in a place as opposed to just being a tourist. You can get a different perspective on the country and the people when you're there to do a job. The country is magnificent. I'm just overwhelmed with the natural beauty.

Amanda Schull

There's always going to be somebody that you consider maybe more beautiful. But nine times out of ten here in L.A., that beauty isn't home grown. It's usually manufactured. It sort of encourages me to work more within myself because I think that's not what appeals to me. Plastic and tons of makeup.

Jack Falahee

A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.

Romesh Gunesekera

The most appealing side-effect of Sri Lankan cricket from where I stand, shuffling words, has been linguistic.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

A careful balance of appealing to the Republicans in the hall, while not alienating his pro-Democratic state.

Kurt Braunohler

A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.

AMC made a business decision not to show The Aristocrats because we believed the film would have limited audience appeal and we continue to stand behind our decision.

They might hold a particular appeal to baby boomers who want a high-touch relationship, where they can talk to the person in charge.

David Boies

They placed on the plaintiffs the burden of first coming forward and identifying a work that they had a copyright in, and second demonstrating that it was listed on the Napster index that is available through Napster. Because the court of appeals -- we think -- properly put that burden on the plaintiffs, we have begun by dealing with those files where the plaintiffs have met that burden.

They have appealed through an improved quality of store, more merchandise, bilingual orientation and paid attention to the nostalgia market with products made in Mexico.

They do review those claims, they do look into them, they do investigate them. We're disappointed with the verdict, and we'll be looking next week at our next course of action, on whether we'll be able to appeal or not.

This is still unknown territory. The question is how much of the appeal of a singer like this is because she's underground. It's a classic trade-off in the music industry. There are a lot of people that like that discovery process. They like to be cool. So when the artist actually gets over to a big label, all of their original fans will think the band sold out.

Chipper Jones

This is something I've always wanted to do. It's always something that appealed to me and something I've never been able to do.

This is one of the most complex relief operations ever. I am appealing to people and governments around the world to support us in this humanitarian work.

The whole idea is to make it something that is appealing to all ages. The kids sometimes know more about the music than the musicians. Some of (the songs) are cartoon themes.

The university hopes to have the matter addressed by the newly assigned trial judge as quickly as possible and, if necessary, for any appeals to be completed so that the next legislature can confirm an appointment as quickly as possible.

this deluded sense of making a film that would only appeal to Mormons, but somehow believing it's going to cross over into the mainstream.

This combination of useful technology and luxury features will appeal to a wide range of customers who value high levels of safety, quality, performance and comfort in a graceful and elegant vehicle,

This circus is an icon in the African-American community. Because it is multicultural, all people can come and enjoy the circus. The dress and the music appeals to the audience. We're hip.

(This ad) appeals to the intended audience. That's pretty good. It doesn't always happen.

This is a change from our normal process. Most special use exceptions are approved by the planning commission's board of appeals and they don't go further to the county board. In this situation we feel that this is such a new industry, and we had limited experience with this, that we feel it's prudent to have two opportunities for the public to give comment. And so the county board will give their final approval on this.

It really was a huge fourth quarter for us. We had struggled in the second and third quarter. At the start of the fourth quarter we appealed to them to dig down and they went out and started executing.

Stephen Quinn

It really resonated with women, and that's something we wanted. We're really trying to appeal to her. She is wielding a lot of power in the retail world.

It really appeals very strongly to a fan base of 18- to 34-year-olds. When you're looking at a platform like this, you want to appeal to a passionate and loyal audience.

It's a great show and a great way to appeal to the younger crowd.

Nina Tassler

It's a kind of storytelling that we think will appeal to a Latin audience, but we think that our audience will enjoy it as well.