Famous Quotes & Sayings

Feist

I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

Charlie Trotter

The most successful food, I think, is food that both appeals to the super-sophisticated diner or foodie and to the lay diner at the same time.

Cate Blanchett

I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.

Gerry Schwartz

I am personally interested in more than just business schools. However, life has been good to me, and it's been good to me through a business career. I think the chance to help strengthen the foundation of young people going into business, as I did, just appeals to me.

I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.

We didn't pull out a marker and get on the board at halftime. We just kind of appealed to their competitive nature and challenged them in terms of where they want to go and how they want their season to play out.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.

Bill Keller

In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that.

Adriano Giannini

I would like to get a house in Tuscany: aside from New York, cities do not appeal to me anymore.

Al Jarreau

Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the womb. That's why music appeals to people.

We still do not know officially. We have been trying to get in contact. We have sent an official note in which we appeal to the authorities not to deport anyone.

The question is how can they make their product appealing to the cable and satellite operators. So it's not just 100 percent based on customer awareness.

Steven Pinker

Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.

Sophia Loren

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

Tom Wolfe

I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was 'jejune' and I would throw it into every piece because something about it appealed to me.

Sid Waddell

It's a form of mental and verbal gymnastics, and one of the things that appeals to me most about commenting on darts is that no one knows exactly what I'm going to come out with next - and neither do I.

Beau Willimon

When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.

Tadashi Shoji

I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.

We want to appeal to people and make them feel like they've got a good green thumb. This is a great program that both helps the environment, and also disabled adults.

We are not overly happy but respect the decision made by the panel. We are not likely to appeal but would like to reserve the right to while waiting to hear the official reasoning from UEFA.

When you're putting your house on the market, it's a product and you need to stage it as such. Staging it is making it appealing to a buyer.

John Taylor

When 'Grand Theft Auto III' was originally released, no one had any idea it was going to be near as large as it was. It took six to eight weeks before people realized something unusual was happening and that there was crossover appeal to that game.

Craig McCracken

The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.

Chris Lilley

Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.

We are crossing party lines here. Lovelace appeals to both Republicans and Democrats.

We are convinced that a pro can give his best when he's competing in races that appeal to him.

We are confident that we will have it reversed. We have met every evidentiary requirement that the Circuit Court of Appeals has said we needed to go to trial.

We are confident that the federal appeals court will ultimately find in our favor. We believe we are correct in classifying our store managers as salaried managers, and we intend to continue to fight for what we believe is right.

Those folks had their assessments appealed by a school district or a municipality.

We are going to appeal the detention decision, most likely with the Moscow City Court.

Gloria Steinem

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.

Alma Gluck

Time and again, a student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worthwhile to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests, saying that if the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it.

Allison Tolman

I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle.