Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jalal Talabani

We should not be hasty regarding the issues and the constitution should not be born crippled, ... We are keen to have an early constitution, but the constitution should be completed in all of its items in a proper manner that appeals to all components of the Iraqi people so that the whole people interact with the whole constitution.

Andrae Crouch

I think that some people still think that the formula other than gospel still is not strong enough to get that crossover appeal to people enough that they would play it all the time, or nonchurch people would accept it, but I disagree.

Aidan Gillen

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.

Ottessa Moshfegh

I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'

Ellen Willis

You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.

Elmore Leonard

When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she's got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she's good-looking. And I say, 'I've got to use her.'

Corey Taylor

People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don't want to grow up.

Eliot Spitzer

Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately - to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions - is often overpowering.

James E. Faust

All women have appealing features. I do not refer to model-type appeal, but rather that which comes from your personality, your attitude, and your expressions. I urge you to enhance the natural, God-given, feminine gifts with which you have been so richly blessed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

The deal with the Disney comics is to do stories and comics in a style that appeals to an older audience than is normally associated with a Disney brand.

The expansion is a vote of confidence in India's emerging knowledge-economy. The Oracle move shows that India's appeal as an investment destination is only increasing.

What it is that attracts people is that they're irreverent. In today's world of polished branding campaigns and well-thought-out strategies, they're a little bit fresh. That is very appealing to the average American, especially to the young male.

What I'm trying to do here is to create a little community. We have tried to make this appealing to wide demographics, single, elderly, families and empty nesters.

Raquel Welch

I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a British company. The Brits, and a lot of the rest of Europe, seemed to really love exotic women. The fact that I was American and exotic just made me more appealing to them.

Kitchens generally tend to recoup their cost, and bathrooms too. Those are widely appealing to the marketplace, and they tend to be more standard in form. Things that are very idiosyncratic and are customized to the homeowners' individual tastes--they don't appeal to a wider audience.

I would think this is a long shot, trying to get the Court of Appeals to stop this trial. The defense has a better chance of having a stay granted than winning on the merits of the claim.

JAMDAT's experience in creating fun and innovative games that appeal widely to wireless consumers makes them the ideal partner to bring my legendary TV quiz show, Bullseye, to mobile phones.

Drake Bell

I would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.

Juan Miguel is an honorable man. He has given his word. He will stay in the United States so long as the appeals process is under way.

It appears that that will be the last meaningful legal appeal unless something comes up, ... Fundamentally, the decision of the Florida courts will remain unchanged and the federal courts have declined to get involved.

It appeals to people who don't want to worry about transferring balances. When you have a low fixed-rate card, there's no reason to be jumping around.

Yevgeny Primakov

Has the United States changed during this time? It has. You won't hear it said in the American leadership, as was the case at the beginning of the war in Iraq, that there must be no trace of the UN, least of all the UN flag, there. Now, on the contrary, there are appeals for the UN to participate more extensively in these events for the sake of appeasement, stabilization of the situation.

Half of this will go to the South Asia earthquake matching fund; the remaining will go to the two appeals we have now received, one from the United Nations and one from the Red Cross movement,

Graeme Le Saux

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.

We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

Stephen Colbert

Late-night shows are 'Chopped.' Who are your guests tonight? Your guests tonight are veal tongue, coffee grounds and gummy bears. There, make a show ... Make an appetizer that appeals to millions of people. That's what I like. How could you possibly do it? Oh, you bring in your own flavors. Your own house band is another flavor.

Shaquille O'Neal

Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel.

There are so many different groups who are playing that there is going to be something that appeals to everybody each day.

Q-Tip

I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.

Here are the facts for my campaign. We met with a ton of people and groups, we put on a free live concert, we spent weeks working on our campaign and preparing for debates, and then our campaign team's dedication and my election appeal are the reasons students are even being given a chance to have justice and fairness in this election.

Keith Robinson

Hard-core fans want to relive the exact experience, ... They want true emulation. They want to see us make new versions of the original controllers, which we can't do. But that's the appeal of the DS.

John Gay

He's a good, pro-business senator. He's with us on labor issues, tax issues. He's for permanent appeal of the death tax.