Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Milne

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

Lisa Cholodenko

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

Michael Specter

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.

The other thing that was attractive to me is that he himself is a product of Catholic schools and has sent two children through Catholic schools.

The possibility of rising interest rates worries investors. For many companies there is a direct effect on their earnings and stocks can also become less attractive to bonds.

The perception that Kentucky is down, therefore the league is down, is very true because they are the flagship program in the SEC. It's a combination of (UK) and the fact that (success) in power conferences is cyclical. Often a league that can attract top-caliber recruits is more easily susceptible to losing great players to the NBA. How much better would some of these teams be if they had those players now?

We are seeing a lot of success in the ski/wakeboard segment in attracting new boaters, while pontoons have declined substantially in this area.

We are pleased to continue our partnership with York Street Capital. This expanded capital commitment helps to fill the growing need for junior capital driven by strong buyout markets and record levels of private equity fundraising. Through York Street, we are providing broader financing alternatives to companies and equity sponsors at a time when flexible junior capital solutions are an important component in financing both buyouts and corporate expansion. We believe that York Street will continue to generate superior returns and provide attractive co-investment opportunities for Teachers' Private Capital.

We started three seasons ago with Monday Night Football. We thought it might be a catchy attraction to get guys who don't regularly go to church.

We started this right after our first year because we knew, if we were going to sustain the sport in our town, we needed to attract more players.

We are maintaining intense efforts on good merchandising, marketing and the gauging of customers' tastes and demands. We are focused on introducing many new products that we believe will be attractive to our customers.

We believe that there are attractive investment opportunities in Europe -- for mutual fund investors generally, and social investors in particular,

We are going to see recovery in Europe and Japan, and that will make investment in those other countries more attractive and make for a weaker dollar.

We are going to see a whole generation of much more user-friendly systems which are more attractive for use in the home.

We are at the top of a trading range. Everyone's willing to be bullish, but is the cash there to provide the energy the bulls need? Or is the December high the high-water mark? Dow 11,000 is one of the hooks the bulls will use to try and attract more money into the market.

We are a team whose mission is to compete for and win championships. I strongly feel that now is the time for us to make a change in order to give us the best possible chance to live up to this mission. This marketplace has the savviest, most demanding fans in the U.S., and we must provide them with a more entertaining and attractive product on the field.

James Sullivan

There are certainly going to be inflows, the question is at what price? As time goes on, it will become a little more difficult to attract foreign funds. That's another way of saying the dollar will fall.

We strengthened our leadership position in key segments such as minivans and large cars with our sales in January. Our car business is up 20 percent, and our LX products are up 62 percent. The Dodge Caliber begins production today and gives us a strong entry into the small car segment with an attractive price starting at $13,985. We are now a full-time car player.

When you want to be attractive to a new partner, you put on your best face. We want to get over that old boyfriend that went to Mexico.

Mark Harmon

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

Nnedi Okorafor

I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.

When you take a genre that is this entrenched and become the worldwide standard for how a news program is done and you start looking at alternative ways to do it, it's a challenging process, ... You have a core audience that is used to things a certain way that you don't want to alienate, but you also want to attract a new audience. We're trying to balance those two things.

Steven Smith

We always have a harder time attracting women to this kind of a career vs. men, ... A lot more guys are interested in this job.

We always build speculatively as we know that this is the best way to attract new companies to our developments and new employers to an area. In today's fast moving business environment companies cannot wait for buildings to be specially built for them.

Bill Murray

Eh, it's not that attractive to have a plan.

Carre Otis

There is nothing more attractive that a woman who is sure of herself.

We want to see an offering that attracts the sophisticated customers.

Jeremy Robinson

What the podcast novelists do isn't all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.

Whenever you can get a muni-bond at or over 6 percent, that's a very attractive rate.

We want public input on how do we change the beach in order to promote development . . . and attract more people.

We want people to learn about the lessons. A free clinic is a good way to attract people.

Jeff Carter

We want it to be a place where tourists can stop but is useable to people in the valley. We want to make sure that what attracts people here doesn't disappear.

We were attracted to it because we thought it was irreverent and poignant, and because of the obsolete technology.