Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are a lot of guys out there with a Web site and a dream, positioning things to flip over to genuine developers. The current gold-rush mentality has attracted several speculators, causing a low percentage of projects to get built.

I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet.

David Henry Hwang

My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He's never much liked China or the whole idea behind China or Chinese ways of thinking. He's always been much more attracted to American ways of thinking. He feels Americans are more open - they tell you what they think - and he's very much that way himself.

Bruce Johnston

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

Bill Condon

We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.

Bayard Taylor

I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

It's the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me.

This will lower the cost of capital and the investment hurdle rate, make SA more attractive for foreign direct investment, and support foreign portfolio investment in (local) equities.

This will be seen as a publicity stunt and, yes, we want to attract people who might not ordinarily be basketball fans. But the main reason for doing this is to give basketball fans the chance to see one of the all-time great players playing here in the BBL.

This was a niche that was very attractive to us. It seemed like a timing thing more than anything else. I thought the product had viability and strong marketing possibilities, and I liked the shelf life of the movie. I'm looking at 80 million poker players -- and growing -- and I'm thinking if we can get 50 percent of them to look at this, it could be really interesting.

The past couple of years I've had other opportunities that were fairly attractive to me, but I'm committed to this. I still perceive this program to have great potential. I think we can do something special here.

This recognition is validation that MATRIX places strong emphasis on building a workplace that attracts and retains the best people in our business. By providing a desirable work environment with an emphasis on work-life balance, we enable our employees to perform their best in delivering superior service to our customers. Investing in our people and culture is smart business as it ensures the continued success of our company.

This show has caught on so fast with audiences and has consistently lifted us at 8 p.m.. The fast pace and the potential for a true reversal of fortune has attracted a lot of people for us in that crucial time slot, and we look forward to seeing more of the same with these new episodes.

This should preclude valuations from retesting previous troughs of this year, making the stocks very attractive following the pullback of the past week.

The power rate structure the PUD commission will set in the next two weeks will have long-range consequences on economic development, impacting both the viability of existing businesses and the potential for new businesses and industries to locate in our county, ... Retaining and attracting industrial and manufacturing businesses that provide jobs and in turn stimulate the local economy are key to the health of our communities, the county and our citizens.

When you hire a good coach, it's basically an attraction. (Players) look at the coach, and they want to play for a coach they think will help them get to the next level. The kids here are basically having a good time. They're learning we're winning because of the coach. It's attraction. The word attraction is very, very important. A good coach attracts.

The reason we think this can work from a non-proliferation standpoint is that we are seeking to provide commercially attractive incentives for countries to lease fuel rather than make investments in their own fuel cycle.

The reason we purchased the Vision console was to get that classic API sound in a 5.1 console, ... For NYU, the API Vision console will be a remarkable teaching tool. With the department's focus on contemporary music, this console will enable our students to learn recording on the best-sounding surround console in the world. We look forward to the variety of projects that our new studio and new console will attract within the university.

To attract sophisticated investors to the business was our plan. This is a company built to attract institutional capital.

To attract an economic equivalent could take a generation. We have been pursuing prospects -- some successful, some not so successful -- but they pale in comparison to what this could mean,

We're trying to attract this subculture here to immerse them into the Las Vegas experience.

We're not really exiting the phone business, but refining our strategy, ... Craig Young has assembled a group of people that we were very much attracted to, and so it just seemed the right thing to do.

We think this is a very attractive offer to all shareholders which they should very seriously consider.

We think the odds are that a recovery is under way but we don't think it will be a terribly strong recovery, and our biggest issue is that valuations are not particularly attractive even now.

We're providing some options for the city to not eliminate some of the things that are so attractive about the building, so exciting about the building. Rather than me make that decision, I'd rather give the Council that option. ... I still think an extra 10 or 12 feet does not invalidate the concerns that many of the community members had with the height. I think it's relevant enough without taking away the character or integrity of the dome.

Jack Johnson

Why are white women so attracted to black men? We eat cold eels and think distant thoughts.

David Chang

To me, there are two types of celebrity: there's good celebrity - people that are attracted to the food and working and trying to create something great - and then there's bad celebrity - those who are working on being a celebrity.

Gordon Strachan

Too many people had an off-day to think it was just a one-off. I have been in jobs where you have to win to save your job. Jim Jefferies has responsibilities to win but I am fortunate enough to have the resources to win and play attractive and exciting football.

This transaction is a major development in our global pest control strategy and significantly improves our scale and opportunity in this attractive market.

We also like health-care firm Baxter International as well, ... It's trading at 17 times 2003 numbers. It's quickly becoming an attractive stock after recent pullbacks.

Jeff Davis

We like, in energy, Williams Companies, which has been beaten down a little bit in the first quarter because of questions about accounting. But, again, I think they're a very clean company but natural gas pipeline is their business. We think, in the energy area, Exxon, which took a bad hit this week, is probably attractive at this point in time,

James Cameron

We've been discussing already an 'Aliens' attraction and there's a discussion of a 'Titanic' attraction, what I call the 'Titanic' restaurant-slash-near-death experience.