Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even small pieces of campaign finance reform are difficult. There's a lot of different interests in Springfield, and there's not a huge appetite from any corner for real campaign finance reform. We certainly saw that when the bill was introduced last session.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Every day, I wake up and I say, 'Why... how... did I end up with 1.7 million Twitter followers?' It's freaky to me, every day, but that tells me that there's an appetite out there that had previously been underserved. There's an inner geek in us all, an inner bit of curiosity that people are discovering, and they like it.

As the market has rebounded and as the economy has improved, so has the appetite and dollars available for merger activity.

George Bernard Shaw

The most striking result of our present system of farming out the national land and capital to private individuals has been the division of society into hostile classes, with large appetites and no dinners at one extreme, and large dinners no appetit

Dick Cheney

a dangerous illusion to suppose that another retreat by the civilized world would satisfy the appetite of the terrorists and get them to leave us alone.

Some sort of correction was overdue. The market may now be moving into consolidation after recent sharp gains. There is still a good appetite for stocks.

These emission credits with regard to Nevada Power belong to our customers. It would not be profitable to our shareholders. There would be no appetite (at Nevada Power to give the revenue to the tribes).

A lack of new models, especially compact cars, trimmed sales last month. Consumers have a strong appetite for more value-added vehicles like Lexus.

There is so far an insatiable appetite for holding more inventory. We're still not recognizing it as a glut.

Richard Kind

What's difficult with doing 'The Producers' is your appetite is enormous. You want money; you want boards; you have huge desires. You've got to want more than anything for two and a half hours. Everything is heightened.

What research is suggesting is that certain scents, like vanilla, may actually reduce or calm your appetite, as well as mint. Mint makes you feel very alert.

We find ourselves having an incredible appetite for life. We're very lucky that way. We're well suited to each other.

You hear people talking about an appetite for jazz. I am hearing it from the senior population and the student population. This is an opportunity to really see what the appetite is.

Jamie Bamber

There's something extremely rewarding about following characters that you like and knowing that there's as many hours of viewing as you have the appetite for. You can tell more complex stories; you can create more complex characters in the longer form.

There's never been anything to put a dent in it. There continues to be a huge appetite for the show.

There's just huge investor appetite for companies they perceive are going to grow because of demand in the marketplace. The Baby Boom generation will make huge demands on the health-care system and health-care products in general.

Tim O'Reilly

I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.

We simply believe the public has an appetite for more current Iditarod news than what can be accommodated inside of a regularly scheduled news broadcast.

David Bowers

The lack of positive growth momentum has undermined risk appetite.

The inversion of the curve could continue certainly well into the second quarter. It depends on the appetite for buying U.S. Treasuries and how far the Fed goes.

I'm glad that we have a big appetite. They don't easily get satisfied. Hopefully we can defend it.

In middle class India, the appetite for risk is low. But it is changing.

It's paradoxical. The strengthening of Japan has given Japanese retail money more appetite for risk, and that means overseas bonds.

Consumers have an insatiable appetite for celebrity news. It's pretty amazing.

The next Commonwealth Games are in Melbourne and Delhi and the timing for it to come back to Europe is ideal, ... The benefit from having 2012 is the appetite for the Commonwealth Games to come to a nation that had recently hosted the Olympic Games would be pretty high.

The bid-to-cover improved a lot, reflecting a reasonable appetite for the two-year notes.

The biggest incentive for investors to buy stocks right now is optimism for sustained economic growth. The kind of appetite we're seeing from investors right now won't end easily.

The auction also showed that foreign appetite for our securities remain voracious, which in itself is another positive sign.

There was an appetite and sometimes you don't want to miss out on that when there is that appetite, if you're in a rebound kind of year. Universal was left a little flat-footed because they did their big Revenge of the Mummy rollout the year before.

A continued decline in U.S. equity purchases will be a telling sign of foreign appetite for U.S. securities, and the future path of the dollar.

Seiji Ozawa

It?s a great surprise to me -- a good surprise, ... In China I know they have an appetite to do classical music, but the standard was low until five years ago. Now, boom, something happened, because all the good people are young, like 17, 18 or 19. They were not around five years ago.

Foreigners love U.S. assets, ... just broad-based appetite for dollar assets.

For example, in Homer's day, sexual satisfaction was equal to the satisfaction of one's appetite for food today. They lived to a point where pleasure was taken to a very high degree ? there was no limit ? wine was the best and food was the best. And that's where we get that idea of classic beauty. Helen had the face that launched 1,000 ships. Her physical beauty had pushed the envelope to the nth degree.