Famous Quotes & Sayings

One of the things that attracted me to be on the chaplain corps was that my wife and I lost our 24-year-old daughter. I thought if we can navigate through that with God's help I thought that others can to. We used our historical belief to understand that there is life beyond that.

Larry Charles

I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.

Langhorne Slim

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

Joanna Lumley

I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.

Mary Harron

Certainly, I've always been attracted to that. Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places. The hidden histories,

Certainly energy continues to do well, but technology has also attracted increasing amounts of funds, and we're seeing growth stocks start to perform better than they have for some time.

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.

Coco Austin

My grandma actually put me in girdles when I was around nine or ten because I had hips even then, and she didn't want boys to be attracted to me. Having hips meant you were a full-grown woman, and I was too young for that.

Robert Towne

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.

Now you have momentum players and volatility players being attracted into the market.

John Burns

News conferences that two years ago would have attracted 60, 80 or 100 Western journalists now get 10, 15 or less.

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.

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 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.

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.

Curtis Jackson

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

Hugh Laurie

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

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 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.

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.

He obviously has some talent, or he wouldn't have attracted the interest of a team like Oklahoma State. He can run, throw, and he's strong. He can hit, and he has worked extremely hard to become a better player.