Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malin Akerman

I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.

John Hawkes

I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.

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.

We had a buy on Toshiba in the last quarter of last year, on the basis we thought it was going to make more money out of its flash memory business. And indeed it did. But again, that stock did well and now valuations do not look attractive any more.

Sarah Thompson

We believe several of the company's assets/divisions may be attractive acquisition targets given their growth prospects and the relative ease to which they could be separated from the larger business.

Robert Stone

We believe scale, low cost, high capacity growth, high quality, and domestic supply relationships make it an attractive global solar ... play.

Reinhold Messner

We attract tourists to these regions where we can't guarantee their security,

We attract planes from all over. They love our terminal. The whole package is good for them.

Randy Bernard

We attract everyone from 8 years old to 80 years old, with our key demographic obviously being 18- to 34-year-old men. But if you come to one of our events, it's more like a rock 'n' roll event than anything else.

Chris Barnes

We attract a young, hip, active, energetic customer base, and that development seems to be attuned to that demographic.

We attract a broad following with those auctions.

We believe India presents an extremely compelling investment story and expect to be a long-term investor in the real estate sector. The residential market is attractive because of rapid urbanization, the availability of housing finance, and the strong growth of the consumer segment.

We just made a run for the Super Bowl, so everybody's feeling good about themselves. Obviously our players become more attractive to other teams. So they get some ideas in their head. We'd love to have them all back, but that's hard to do. We're in a good spot in terms of where our talks are with all of our players.

What the Fed wants to do is to conduct monetary policy as independently as it can, and the way to do that is not to attract attention. That's why the Fed has so rarely changed interest rates -- raised or lowered them during the fall campaign.

We look forward to working with you to put together a package that will be attractive to our management.

We try very hard to attract people of ethnically diverse populations and women. I don't think we should try less hard to attract people of different geographic areas.

With local governments having no money to support many of these things on their own, holding these beauty contests is becoming a very attractive way to get them done.

We expect most of our noon clients to be 55 and older. Many older people are not comfortable driving at night. So this is a nice daytime attraction for them. Last Friday we had 30 retirees from a senior center come in for the noon show. Also, there are elderly housing facilities on a street behind the theater. Those folks live close enough to walk here.

We expect Live2Air to actually enhance yield by attracting new guests,

We don't want our state to be more attractive to people who engage in these activities, as the one place in the country where you can go and do this.

We are very concerned about these shortages and are seeking input from today's nurses to help us more effectively train and attract new workers to the health care field.

There's risk in terms of putting plane orders out there at prices maybe not as attractive as you want, but Boeing can't keep losing all the business, and that's the pressure on them.

Tom Evans

There's still plenty of consumer demand for direct-view televisions. They provide people looking to step-up to HD television a great value and for others satisfied with standard definition, an attractive price and solid performance.

Ridley Scott

There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that.