Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Palmer

I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you weren't in control of your wits.

Gary Young

We're not conceding anything. In fact, I think the court of appeals would render in our favor.

Lumber prices should decline slowly, but a settlement of the trade dispute would be a much larger positive for profitability. The U.S. sounds fairly serious about finding a resolution, now that its appeals are nearly exhausted.

Jim Backus

Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.

Magic has not appealed to a younger market for a long time. What I'm trying to do is to appeal to the younger fans, as well as the older ones.

Liberals, the moderates and conservatives on the bench have been feeling out Chief Justice Roberts to see ... what kinds of arguments appeal to him, what kind of person is he.

Lexington is so special because it draws so much strength from its individual neighborhood communities, which in turn strengthens the Lexington community. Lexington has a tradition of welcoming everyone, it had great appeal for individuals of all backgrounds and beliefs.

Jim Cramer

Lewis is an operations guy. His real strength: developing stores that appeal to those who aren't the richest people on earth. For Sears Holdings, he needs to find a space between Wal-Mart and Target. I believe he can do it.

Imelda May

I'm sorry, but Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots don't move me in any way, shape or form. I refuse to wear them. Modern fashion doesn't appeal to me; the 1950s were better in every way, don't you think?

Chris Bangle

I think the durability of the sedan as well as its worldwide appeal argues well for it as a concept that resonates with people's ideas about how their lives are oriented. They understand the difference between an area for powertrain, an area for people, and an area for their stuff.

Emilia Fox

In acting, every day is different, and I guess it appeals to my storytelling imagination. But I've been very fortunate to get the chance to do what I want to do and earn a living from it to pay the mortgage.

Ivor Novello

The pictures are designed to portray human emotions, good and evil, fine and tawdry; and it is no wonder that their appeal is so universal.

Clint Eastwood

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Adam Michnik

In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.

Matthew Sweet

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

William Kingdon Clifford

To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.