Famous Quotes & Sayings

Recently, especially with the announcement of the heart institute that's going to be opening in 2007, we've had a whole new wave of outstanding scientists and physicians attracted here to work with the team that was already in place.

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'

Roberts has attracted broad, bipartisan support for his fairness, keen intellect, open-mindedness, and judicious practice of the law, ... He is highly regarded and well respected by the legal and business communities.

Arthur Penn

I think there's a quality of passion to the American actor. I'm certainly attracted to it, and I like to hope that underscoring it is a characteristic of my work. That quality is certainly also present in some British actors, but I tend to feel the mechanical and intellectual process is dominant in the British.

Kathy Sierra

Just by going out and singing our language, it has really attracted a lot of kids to come and join this choir,

That's what attracted me to it. I wasn't interested in doing it if it was just going to be about trying to portray Truman Capote and if I could be successful or not. It really was about the inevitability of a tragedy unfolding.

I think some buyers have actually been attracted to the fact that the market has been down so big (this week) even though there may be extensive damage as a result of Rita. Clearly people are concluding things will continue to go on and that the economy is resilient enough to take another blow,

James Nesbitt

Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

Lykke Li

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

Clive Owen

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

Dan Futterman

I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing a television show, though. I actually think there are a couple of good ones. And there is some terrible theater. Film is a very different kind of acting.

It has attracted a whole new set of customers that we'd never really talked to before.

Andrew Forrest

I'd like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.

Jesse Ventura

I don't know why I'm being attracted to gambling, considering I don't do it myself very often.

Tom Robbins

Ideas are mallable and unstable; they not only can be misused, they invite misuse---and the better the idea the more volatile it is. That's because only the better ideas turn into dogma, and it is by this process whereby a fresh, stimulating, humanly helpful idea is changed into robot dogma that is deadly. The problem starts at the secondary level, not with the originator or developer of the idea, but with the people who are attracted to it, until the last nail breaks, and who invariably lack the overview, flexibility, imagination, and, most importantly, sense of humor to maintain it in the spirit in which it was hatched. Ideas are made by masters, dogmas by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road.

Tony Lewis

I am delighted that we have attracted John Fisher, a man with a wonderful reputation with singers, but who also demonstrated a desire and intellect to expand his work into the full general director's role.

I believe this is new money and attracted by the fact that the price is going up. I think it will continue to be a major part of the investment portfolio, irrespective of gold prices.

Craig Zadan

There are so many psychological and deep ramifications to this story -- that's why Neil and I were attracted to it. Like (Storyline's 'Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows'), this is not just another biopic.

Daniel Woodrell

I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.

Nadine Velazquez

I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.

I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.

I can't imagine that Microsoft would be worried as a result of this. On the other hand, it's something that probably has attracted their interest.

For me, that's why I'm so attracted to music. That's kind of my whole motivation to do what we're doing, so I can get up there and play every night.

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

Just yesterday he diverted another $1.1 billion from pensions to pay for his election-year budget. He continues to reward contributors and his lobbyist friends in ways that give Illinois a bad reputation and have attracted the investigations of the U.S. attorney. Every where I go, people say it's time for a change.

Joe sees a reflection of his wife in Pauline. That was his first instinct which attracted him, and it remains the underlying reason for his affection.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat.

Jennifer Morrison

I love acting because you don't have to do the same thing over and over again, every day, and that's what attracted me to wanting to do this for a living. So to be given an opportunity to create something completely different and live that out is the dream. It's incredibly rewarding.

Caitlyn Jenner

I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.

I had a very rewarding experience coaching at Colorado College. The opportunity to work with the quality student-athletes who are attracted to the college will be remembered fondly." ()

I think the idea that Texas is going to somehow suffer because it's not becoming like Massachusetts is silly. Texas is attractive for many people for the reason that it is not like Northeastern states. Those kind of traditional moral beliefs that provide children with both a mom and a dad are the reason that people are attracted to Texas. If you destroy that image, it would hurt Texas.

Felicity Jones

I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.