Famous Quotes & Sayings

The lure of a $20-plus wage an hour is certainly going to attract some people.

Jon Favreau

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

(The initiative) is a public/private partnership designed to attract and retain the businesses and high paying jobs.

These are certainly the kind of quality jobs with attractive wages we want to lure to our community. We're confident that we've put together a very good competitive package.

These institutions, the wider Innovation Zone, and the foundation of an International University, are very significant steps towards establishing the Thessaloniki region as a pole of attracting scientists from Southeastern Europe and at the same time establishing the region as the base of new enterprises in the new technology sectors,

These infrastructure improvements will help attract private investments.

These H shares are attractive because their profit outlook has turned around in the past year. Next I think we'll see investors move to red chips.

Elaine Chao

These grants will help the economic redevelopment of this region by building the pool of skilled workers necessary to attract new industries,

This history needs to be told, and the best way to do that is to have a visitor's center that people can be attracted to, where they come and you give them the story and the history -- let them know there is more to Utah than snow on the hills. Utah's history is just as important as Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

This is all part of Sun's effort to remain relevant by making Solaris more attractive to users and blunting the growing interest in Linux by offering their own open-source technology.

are attracted to the two of us diving down and up.

Aquariums are popular because they fill what people are looking for in a vacation. There has been a trend toward family-oriented vacations and traditional type of vacations. People also want their vacations to have an educational component that is disguised as fun. When you are doing a big downtown revitalization project, it makes sense to have a flagship attraction that you can build around.

A professional designer can help you be hospitable with wildlife. For example, attracting butterflies or humming birds, or detracting species like deer.

A prepaid tuition plan is attractive to a family that just wants to make sure they've paid for the future tuition at a public university and they don't want to worry about which direction the markets are going.

Anything that says that you've got new money coming in, I think, is a good sign, maybe something that would attract a gaming partner that would make them more competitive.

Kathy Valentine

Anything that makes a place more attractive makes people want to stop and shop. It's a great community effort to bring people together.

John Oliver

Any time a particular attraction like Splash Lagoon attracts visitors, it's not just Splash Lagoon that benefits. It's the entire region.

Corey Sevier

A sense of humor is important. I'm always attracted to a girl with confidence. In terms of looks, I don't have a type. I think a lot of girls think that they have to be super-thin, to meet the Hollywood image, but I think a girl who is voluptuous is very beautiful.

A show of police force worthy of a banana republic is the latest attraction on the cobbled streets of Georgetown.

As a pair of luxury communities, we have been attractive to people who have been more stable in their employment. Other than job transfers, most of our tenants have no real reason to move.

As a team we're looking for teammates, not superstars. Someone who can play the game and can be a good friend. That's as important as playing the game well. In recent years we've been fortunate to attract quite a few new members and this year we're concerned with having to turn people away.

As a category, games represent 50 percent of consumer PC software sales. This is an opportunity for volume growth in disc drive shipments as the Xbox attracts a large portion of this audience.

As a bicoastal wealth management bank, First Republic needs to be in the Northeast and, of course, Fairfield County. Last month's acquisition of First Signature Bank positions them in the important markets of Boston and greater Greenwich. Still, they're going to have tough competition. These markets attract the best and the brightest in private banking.

As a county commissioner, I would like to be a champion for Washington County as far as attracting new business to the county.

The buzz on Reality so far is good. We know both consumers and advertisers love reality TV, and thought this channel would be a natural to attract clients.

Right now we have a beach that's a very good attraction for our community and people from outside our community. We're building an events center. And right between those is one of the most contaminated bodies of water in the state.

William T. Vollmann

Precisely because I'm a man who is attracted to women, there may be some things that I have to say as a spectator of feminine grace that women themselves may not be able to see.

Charles Stross

Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect.

Qwest without a wireless network is a little bit like the kid who never gets picked for a team in high school. I'm not sure what the attraction is at this point.

Qwest is definitely the orphan Bell. I really don't see Qwest as an attractive acquisition target for several years.

Quality presenters attract an exceptional audience of key decision makers in Europe, which provides an outstanding opportunity for networking at this conference.

Pyramid is interested in the development of an attractive and publicly safe commercial corridor on Route 3.

Putting a lot of money and time in preparedness efforts where you may never see what you hope will never happen is not a politically attractive thing to do. The payoff is too far in advance.